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Matthew StewartMatthew Stewart (1717 - January 23, 1785) was born in Rothesay, Scotland and died in Edinburgh. He succeeded Colin Maclaurin in his chair at the University of Edinburgh, being a mathematician of considerable power, for his theorems on the problem of three bodies, and for his discussion, treated by transversals and involution, of the properties of the circle and straight line. Original entry based on the public domain Rouse History of Mathematics Additional information can be found at http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst477.html Stewart, Matthew Stewart, Matthew Stewart, Matthew
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