John Craig ( eng. John Craig ; 1663, Dumfries , Scottish Kingdom - October 11, 1731, London , Great Britain ) - Scottish mathematician and priest-theologian.
He was born in Scotland , was educated at the University of Edinburgh , then moved to England, where he occupied the position of vicar of the Anglican Church, and later became a prependaria in Salisbury [1] .
The disciple and friend of Isaac Newton .
In his essay on the quadrature of curves, he introduced Leibniz’s method of exposition of differential and integral calculi.
Numerous polemical responses to the work of Craig led him to publish an essay "The Mathematical Principles of Christian Theology" ( Theologiæ Christianæ Principia Mathematica , 1699), criticized by a number of mathematicians and philosophers, including D'Alembert .
Notes
- Uel Manuel FE The Religion of Isaac Newton. - Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. - 141 p. - ISBN 0 19 826640 5 .
Literature
- Craig, John // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 tons. (82 tons and 4 extra.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.