William Neile
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British mathematician
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William Neile's Degrees
- Bachelors Mathematics University of Oxford
- Masters Mathematics University of Oxford
- PhD Mathematics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Neile was an English mathematician and founder member of the Royal Society. His major mathematical work, the rectification of the semicubical parabola, was carried out when he was aged nineteen, and was published by John Wallis. By carrying out the determination of arc lengths on a curve given algebraically, in other words by extending to algebraic curves generally with Cartesian geometry a basic concept from differential geometry, it represented a major advance in what would become infinitesimal calculus. His name also appears as Neil.
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