Duncan Farquharson Gregory

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5 total works indexed

1. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

   · 2004 · cited 43,718x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,528x

3. Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks

   · 1998 · cited 33,710x

4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,722x

5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 19,953x

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Quotes

• “Symbolical algebra is … the science which treats of the combination of operations defined not by their nature, … but by the laws of combination to which they are subject....[W]e suppose the existence of classes of unknown operations subject to the same laws.”
• “It has always appeared to me that we sacrifice many of the advantages and more of the pleasures of studying any science by omitting all reference to the history of its progress: I have therefore occasionally introduced historical notices of those problems which are interesting either from the nature of the questions involved, or from their bearing on the history of the Calculus. ...[T]hese digressions may serve to relieve the dryness of a mere collection of Examples.”
• “In this chapter I shall collect those Theorems in the Differential Calculus which, depending only on the laws of combination of the symbols of differentiation, and not on the functions which are operated on by these symbols, may be proved by the method of the separation of the symbols : but as the principles of this method have not as yet found a place in the elementary works on the Calculus, I shall first state? briefly the theory on which it is founded.”

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Key dates

Born

13 April 1813

Died

23 February 1844

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Duncan

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Place of birth

Aberdeen

Place of death

Edinburgh

Occupation

mathematician

Educated at

Trinity College

Employer

Trinity College

Languages spoken

English language

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