About: William, 2nd Viscount Brouncker

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William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, FRS (1620 - 5 April 1684) was an English mathematician. Brouncker obtained a PhD at the University of Oxford in 1647. He was one of the founders and the first President of the Royal Society. His mathematical work concerned in particular the calculations of the lengths of the parabola and cycloid, and the quadrature of the hyperbola, which requires approximation of the natural logarithm function by infinite series. He was the first in England to take interest in generalised continued fractions and, following the work of John Wallis, he provided development in the generalised continued fraction of pi.

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rdfs:comment	William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, FRS (1620 - 5 April 1684) was an English mathematician. Brouncker obtained a PhD at the University of Oxford in 1647. He was one of the founders and the first President of the Royal Society. His mathematical work concerned in particular the calculations of the lengths of the parabola and cycloid, and the quadrature of the hyperbola, which requires approximation of the natural logarithm function by infinite series. He was the first in England to take interest in generalised continued fractions and, following the work of John Wallis, he provided development in the generalised continued fraction of pi.
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Name	Lord Brouncker
Cause of Death	Natural Causes
Affiliations	Royal Society
Occupation	Mathematician, Lord of the Admiralty
Death	1684(xsd:integer)
Birth	1620(xsd:integer)
Nationality	England
abstract	William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, FRS (1620 - 5 April 1684) was an English mathematician. Brouncker obtained a PhD at the University of Oxford in 1647. He was one of the founders and the first President of the Royal Society. His mathematical work concerned in particular the calculations of the lengths of the parabola and cycloid, and the quadrature of the hyperbola, which requires approximation of the natural logarithm function by infinite series. He was the first in England to take interest in generalised continued fractions and, following the work of John Wallis, he provided development in the generalised continued fraction of pi.

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