Johan Jacob Ferguson

Johan Jacob Ferguson (c. 1630 – 6 October 1691?)[1] was a Dutch mathematician who corresponded with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Labyrinthus algebrae, 1667

Life

Born around 1630 in The Hague, he died in 1706 or, according to other sources, in 1691 in Amsterdam.[1]

In his 1667 book Labyrinthus algebrae, written in low Dutch,[2] he shows the solutions of cubic and biquadratic equations using new methods.[3] The book had a partial translation in Latin (lost) and was sent to Isaac Newton.[4][5]

Works
  • Ferguson, Johan Jacob (1667). Labyrinthus algebrae. In's Gravenhage: Johan Jacob Ferguson, Johannes Tongerloo, Jacobus Scheltus.

References
  1. Jan A. van Maanen, Korrespondenten von G. W. Leibniz Korrespondenten von G. W. Leibniz: 11. Johan Ferguson geb. um 1630 in Haag(?), gest. vor dem 24. November 1706, vermutlich am 6. Oktober 1691 in Amsterdam, Studia Leibnitiana, Vol 22 (1990), pp. 203-216
  2. Abraham Rees (1819). "Algebra". The Cyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature. Longman, Hurst. p. 674.
  3. Stephen Jordan Rigaud, ed. (1841). Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century. University Press. pp. 515–.
  4. Giornale di fisica (in Italian). Società Italiana de Física. 1990. p. 115.
  5. G. Tarozzi; Monique van Vloten (1989). Radici, significato, retaggio dell'opera newtoniana (in Italian). Società italiana di fisica. p. 371.
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