Mathematician:Joseph Raphson

Mathematician
English mathematician best known for the Newton-Raphson method for approximating the zeroes of a function.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 1668 in Pinner, Middlesex, England
 * Died: 1712 in England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Newton-Raphson Method for approximating the zeroes of a function, independently of (also known as Newton's Method)

Publications

 * 1690: (in which Newton-Raphson Method appears)
 * 1697: De Spatio Reali
 * 1702: A mathematical dictionary (translation and abridgement of 's of $1691$)
 * 1710: Demonstratio de Deo
 * 1720: Universal Arithmetick (translation into English of 's of $1707$