Heuraet

Hendrik van Heuraet

Born: 1633 in Haarlem, Netherlands
Died: 1660 in (probably) Leiden, Netherlands 

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Hendrik van Heuraet studied under van Schooten with fellow students Huygens and Hudde.

Heuraet has only one publication in which he effectively computes the integral

(Integral) sqrt(1+y'^2)dx

and applies his methods to the parabola. His methods of rectification of curves became part of a more general theory by Fermat which was produced independently and at about the same time.

Other Web sites:

Rice University, USA

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. C de Waard, Hendrik van Heuraet, Nieuw Nederlandsch biographisch woordenboek I (Leiden, 1911), 1098-1099.
  3. J A Van Maanen, Hendrik van Heuraet (1634-1660?) : his life and mathematical work, Centaurus 27 (1984), 218-279. 
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