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Roger Cotes

was born 342 years ago

10 July 1682

Roger Cotes was an English mathematician who edited the second edition of Newton's Principia. He made advances in the theory of logarithms, the integral calculus and in numerical methods, particularly interpolation.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cotes/