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James Gregory ( Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, noviembre de 1638 – Edimburgo, octubre de 1675) fue un matemático y astrónomo escocés. Entre sus logros más notables, figuran aportaciones al cálculo integral y a los desarrollos en serie en el campo de las matemáticas, y al descubrimiento de las redes de difracción en óptica .
James Gregory FRS (November 1638 – October 1675) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelt as Gregorie , the original Scottish spelling. He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry , discovering infinite ...
James Gregory (Drumoak, Escocia, 1638 - Edimburgo, 1675) Matemático y astrónomo escocés. En 1667 escribió La verdadera área del círculo y de la hipérbola , donde calculaba las áreas por medio de series convergentes (término que acuñó él mismo, así como el de serie divergente) que tienden a infinito, método precursor del cálculo ...
Quick Info. Born. November 1638. Drumoak (near Aberdeen), Scotland. Died. October 1675. Edinburgh, Scotland. Summary. James Gregory was a Scottish scientist and first Regius Professor of Mathematics at St Andrews who described the first practical reflecting telescope.
James Gregory (1638-1675) - Our History. The mathematician James Gregory was born at the Manse of Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, in November 1638. He was educated in Aberdeen and then studied at Marischal College in the city.
James Gregory (born November 1638, Drumoak [near Aberdeen], Scotland—died October 1675, Edinburgh) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer who discovered infinite series representations for a number of trigonometry functions, although he is mostly remembered for his description of the first practical reflecting telescope, now known as the ...
James Gregory, born at Drumoak near Aberdeen in 1638, and died at Edinburgh in October 1675, was successively professor at St. Andrews and Edinburgh. In 1660 he published his Optica Promota , in which the reflecting telescope known by his name is described.
