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{{Short description|Scottish mathematician (1777–1815)}} ...tland – died 22 May 1815 in [[Glasgow, Scotland|Glasgow]], Scotland) was a Scottish mathematician who published works on the fields of [[logarithmic functions] ...

...dely used in Europe from the late fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century. The common [[London dial|horizontal sundial]] is a geometric [[Graphical p ...own to the Moorish astronomer [[Abdul Hassan Ali]] in the early thirteenth century<ref>{{cite web ...

...tance of this early work had a large impact on both contemporary and later mathematicians; for example, [[Abraham de Moivre]]. Bernoulli wrote the text between 1684 and 1689, including the work of mathematicians such as [[Christiaan Huygens]], [[Gerolamo Cardano]], [[Pierre de Fermat]], ...

...been born in India, De Morgan used to say that he was neither English nor Scottish nor Irish, but a Briton "unattached," using the technical term applied to a ....{{sfn|Arcavi|Bruckheimer|1989}} Several of his students went on to become mathematicians, most notably [[James Joseph Sylvester]], and some of them, [[Edward Routh] ...

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