Re: [HM] Hudde


Subject: Re: [HM] Hudde
From: Antreas P. Hatzipolakis (xpolakis@otenet.gr)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 10:50:17 EST


I wrote:

>> I guess it is: Johann van Waveren Hudde (1608-1704).
                                            ^^^^
                                            1628 (my typo)
And Avinoam Mann remarked:

> According to Boyer's HoM, Johann Hudde (1629-1704) was for about thirty
[...]
> All of this corresponds to what Antreas quoted from the St. Andrews
> archives, except for the date of birth. How about that?

Dear Avinoam,

Smith [1] writes:

[Johann Hudde] Latin, Huddensis. Born at Amsterdam, probably in 1628 or 1629;
died at Amsterdam, April 16, 1704.

[1] D.E. Smith: History of Mathematics. Dover, 1958 (First Publ. in 1923).
Vol. I, p. 425, footnote #7.

Antreas



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