biography
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| lived:
| (1630–77)
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| biography:
| Mathematician and theologian, born in London, UK. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1649. He was professor of geometry at Gresham College, London (1662), and the first Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge (1663), but resigned in 1669 to make way for Isaac Newton. He founded the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became Master in 1673. |
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