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 Isaac Newton (also known as Newton's Method)

Definitions of concepts named for Joseph Raphson can be found here.

Publications

• 1690: Analysis Aequationum Universalis (in which Newton-Raphson Method appears)
• 1697: De Spatio Reali
• 1702: A mathematical dictionary (translation and abridgement of Jacques Ozanam's Dictionnaire mathématique of $1691$)
• 1710: Demonstratio de Deo
• 1720: Universal Arithmetick (translation into English of Isaac Newton's Arithmetica Universalis of $1707$

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Joseph Raphson": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive