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Roger Cotes

1682 - 1716

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Roger Cotes (10 July 1682 – 5 June 1716) was an English mathematician, known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the Principia, before publication. He also devised the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas, which originated from Newton's research, and made a geometric argument that can be interpreted as a logarithmic version of Euler's formula. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Cotes has received more than 255,987 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Roger Cotes is the 368th most popular mathematician (up from 459th in 2019), the 1,728th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,231st in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Roger Cotes ranks 368 out of 1,004. Before him are Lothar Collatz, Ivan Vinogradov, Bruno Abakanowicz, Heisuke Hironaka, George Green, and Otto Hesse. After him are Klaus Roth, Diocles, Caspar Wessel, Plato Tiburtinus, Yakov Sinai, and Edward Kasner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1682, Roger Cotes ranks 13. Before him are Johann Friedrich Böttger, Jacopo Amigoni, Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach, William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Jan van Huysum, and Claudine Guérin de Tencin. After him are Jean-François Dandrieu, Christian Ferdinand Abel, John Hadley, Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau, Johann Jacob Bach, and Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg. Among people deceased in 1716, Roger Cotes ranks 9. Before him are Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, Engelbert Kaempfer, Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Giovanni Battista Bassani, Tokugawa Ietsugu, and Ogata Kōrin. After him are Anthim the Iberian, Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, Charles de La Fosse, Banda Singh Bahadur, Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, and Marfa Apraksina.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Cotes ranks 1,728 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862), Richard Williamson (1940), Ian Callaghan (1942), Anthony Blunt (1907), Gary Glitter (1944), and Richard Aldington (1892). After him are Kingsley Amis (1922), Dido (1971), Patrick Head (1946), Kathleen Ferrier (1912), Edward Low (1690), and Frederic W. H. Myers (1843).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Roger Cotes ranks 36. Before him are William George Horner (1786), Alan Baker (1939), John Graunt (1620), Frank P. Ramsey (1903), Peter Barlow (1776), and George Green (1793). After him are William Sealy Gosset (1876), William Jones (1675), Mary Cartwright (1900), Thomas Bradwardine (1300), Edmund Gunter (1581), and William Kingdon Clifford (1845).

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