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James Gregory
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Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Key facts
- Born
- November 1638 ( 1638-11 ) , Drumoak , Aberdeenshire , Scotland
- Died
- October 1675 (1675-10-00) (aged 36), Edinburgh , Scotland
- Citizenship
- Scotland
- Alma mater
- Marischal College , University of Aberdeen , University of Padua
- Known for
- Gregorian telescope , Gregory coefficients , Diffraction grating , Fundamental theorem of the calculus , Integral of the secant function
- Fields
- Mathematics , Astronomy
- Institutions
- University of St. Andrews , University of Edinburgh
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Family name
- Gregory
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Scotland
- Place of death
- Edinburgh
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Aberdeen Grammar School
- Employer
- University of Edinburgh
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Church of Scotland
- Notable work
- fundamental theorem of calculus
- Student of
- Stefano degli Angeli
- Field of work
- astronomy
- Image
- James Gregory.jpeg
- Work location
- Scotland
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- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- member of
- Royal Society
- date of birth
- 1638-01-01
- date of death
- 1675-01-01
- Commons gallery
- James Gregory
- influenced by
- Henry Briggs
- name in native language
- James Gregorie
- Commons category
- James Gregory (mathematician)
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- relative
- John Gregory
- birth name
- James Gregorie
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Encyclopedic overview
James Gregory (November 1638 – October 1675) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelt as Gregorie, the original Scottish spelling. He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite series representations for several trigonometric functions.
In his book Geometriae Pars Universalis (1668) Gregory gave both the first published statement and proof of the fundamental theorem of the calculus (stated from a geometric point of view, and only for a special class of the curves considered by later versions of the theorem), for which he was acknowledged by Isaac Barrow.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “James Gregory” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.