Barrow, Isaac (1630–1677)
English mathematician and theologian. The first Lucasian professor of mathematics
in the University of Cambridge (1663), Barrow resigned in favor of his pupil
Isaac Newton in 1669. Barrow's work on tangents
and areas was influential in Newton's development
of the calculus. He was also the first
to study the curve known as the strophoid.
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