Mathematician:William Neile

Mathematician
English mathematician whose most important work was on the rectification of the semicubical parabola, which was an important stage in the development of calculus.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 16 Dec 1637, Bishopsthorpe (near York), England
 * 1652: Entered Wadham College, Oxford
 * 1655: Matriculated
 * 1657: Became the first person to find the arc length of an algebraic curve, by his rectification of the semicubical parabola
 * 7 Jan 1663: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
 * 11 April 1666: Became a member of the Council of the Royal Society
 * 29 April 1669: Presented Hypothesis of Motion to the Royal Society
 * Died: 24 Aug 1670, White Waltham, Berkshire, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Neile's Parabola (also known as the Semicubical Parabola or the Cuspidal Cubic)

Publications

 * 1659: Contribution towards 's De Cycloide et de Corporibus inde Genitis
 * 1669: Hypothesis of Motion

Also known as
His surname sometimes rendered as Neil.