John Landen

John Landen ( born January 23, 1719 Peakirk in Peterborough / formerly in Northamptonshire; † January 15, 1790 in Milton at Peterborough ) was a reclusive mathematician.

In 1762 he was hired by the Earl Fitzwilliam as land managers, where he lived until his death. Mathematics he drove as a pastime, initially contributed to the Ladies Diaries. In 1766 he became a member of the Royal Society. In particular, he examined the differential calculus on algebraic way. In 1775 he wrote his memoirs.

Writings

  • Ladies Diary, various communications (1744-1760)
  • Papers in the Phil Trans (1754, 1760, 1768, 1771, 1775, 1777, 1785 )
  • Mathematical Lucubrations (1755 )
  • A Discourse Concerning the Residual Analysis ( 1758)
  • The Residual Analysis, book i ( 1764)
  • Animadversions on Dr Stewart's method of computing the Sun 's Distance from the Earth ( 1771)
  • Mathematical Memoirs (1780, 1789)
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