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[[File:John Pell.jpg|thumb|John Pell.]]'''John Pell''' (1 March 1611 – 12 December 1685) was an English [[Mathematician (nonfiction)|mathematician]]. | [[File:John Pell.jpg|thumb|John Pell.]]'''John Pell''' (1 March 1611 – 12 December 1685) was an English [[Mathematician (nonfiction)|mathematician]]. | ||
Pell spent much of the 1630s working under [[Samuel Hartlib (nonfiction)|Samuel Hartlib]]'s influence, on a variety of topics in the area of pedagogy, encyclopedism and pansophy, combinatorics and the legacy of Trithemius. By 1638 he had formulated a proposal for a universal language. In mathematics, he concentrated on expanding the scope of algebra in the theory of equations, and on mathematical tables. | Pell spent much of the 1630s working under [[Samuel Hartlib (nonfiction)|Samuel Hartlib]]'s influence, on a variety of topics in the area of pedagogy, encyclopedism and pansophy, combinatorics and the legacy of [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Trithemius]]. By 1638 he had formulated a proposal for a universal language. | ||
In [[Mathematics (nonfiction)|mathematics]], he concentrated on expanding the scope of algebra in the theory of equations, and on mathematical tables. | |||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
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== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Crimes against mathematical constants]] | |||
* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | |||
* [[Mathematics]] | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Samuel Hartlib (nonfiction)]] | * [[Samuel Hartlib (nonfiction)]] | ||
* [[Mathematician (nonfiction)]] | |||
* [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)]] | |||
External links: | External links: | ||
Revision as of 10:23, 17 February 2018
John Pell (1 March 1611 – 12 December 1685) was an English mathematician.
Pell spent much of the 1630s working under Samuel Hartlib's influence, on a variety of topics in the area of pedagogy, encyclopedism and pansophy, combinatorics and the legacy of Trithemius. By 1638 he had formulated a proposal for a universal language.
In mathematics, he concentrated on expanding the scope of algebra in the theory of equations, and on mathematical tables.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- John Pell @ Wikipedia