Roger Cotes
1682 - 1716
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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.
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| Honours awarded to Roger Cotes (Click below for those honoured in this way) | |
| Fellow of the Royal Society | 1711 |
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