About Johan Jacob Ferguson
Lived 1630 – 1706 (aged 75–76). Johan Jacob Ferguson was a mathematician.
Johan Jacob Ferguson was a 17th-century Dutch mathematician who corresponded with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Life He was born around 1630, probably in The Hague, and died before 24 November 1706, probably on 6 October 1691 in Amsterdam. he shows the solutions of cubic and biquadratic equations using new methods. The book had a partial translation in Latin (lost) and was sent to Isaac Newton.
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Who was Johan Jacob Ferguson?
circa 1630-1706
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Johan Jacob Ferguson was born in 1630 in The Hague.
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Johan Jacob Ferguson died in 1706 in Amsterdam.
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Johan Jacob Ferguson was a mathematician.
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