Person: Fincke, Thomas

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Thomas Fincke was a Danish doctor who wrote a textbook on geometry.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 6 January 1561, Flensburg, Schleswig (now Germany). Died 24 April 1656, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Analysis, Astronomy, Geometry, Origin Germany


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Github:
bookofproofs
non-Github:
@J-J-O'Connor
@E-F-Robertson


References

Adapted from other CC BY-SA 4.0 Sources:

  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive