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ALEXANDER ANDERSON (c. 1582-1620?)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 959 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER
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ANDERSON (c. 1582-1620?)  , Scottish mathematician, was
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born at
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Aberdeen . In his youth he went to the
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continent and taught
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mathematics at
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Paris, where he published or edited, between the years 1612 and 1619, various geometrical and algebraical tracts, which are conspicuous for their ingenuity and elegance . He was selected by the executors of Franciscus
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Vieta to revise and edit his
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manuscript
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works, a task which he discharged with
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great ability . The works of
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Anderson amount to six thin 4to volumes, and as the last of them was published in 1619, it is probable that the author died soon after that
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year, but the precise date is unknown .

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