Mathematician:William Neile

William Neile, sometimes rendered Neil, was an 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

Books and Papers

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