Mathematician:Robert Simson

Mathematician
Scots mathematician notable for having produced a translation of which was long used as the standard text.

Nationality
Scottish

History

 * Born: 14 October 1687, West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland
 * Died: 1 October 1768, Glasgow, Scotland

Theorems and Definitions

 * Simson's Line

Publications

 * 1735: Sectionum conicarum libri V
 * 1749: Apollonii Pergaei locorum planorum libri II, a restoration of 's lost treatise
 * 1735: Sectionum conicarum libri V (Second Edition, with additions)
 * 1756: (Books I -- VI, XI, XII)
 * 1762:, 2nd Edition, with Data
 * 1776: Roberti Simson opera quaedam reliqua (posthumous, published by Earl Stanhope)
 * 1776: Roberti Simson opera quaedam reliqua (posthumous, published by Earl Stanhope)