Johan Jacob Ferguson
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Johan Jacob Ferguson was a 17th-century Dutch mathematician who corresponded with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.[1]
Life
[edit | edit source]He was born around 1630, probably in The Hague, and died before 24 November 1706, probably on 6 October 1691 in Amsterdam.[1]
In his 1667 book Labyrinthus algebrae, written in low Dutch,[2] he shows the solutions of cubic and biquadratic equations using new methods.[3] The book had a partial translation in Latin (lost) and was sent to Isaac Newton.[4][5]
Works
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