Alexander Anderson, born about 1582 in Aberdeen and dead about 1620 in Paris, was a Scottish mathematician. His birth year is inferred from a print that gives his age as thirty-five in 1617, and where he was educated is unknown, though he probably first studied writing and philosophy in Aberdeen. He went to the continent and was professor of mathematics in Paris by the start of the seventeenth century, where between 1612 and 1619 he published or edited various geometric and algebraic tracts, and in the dedication of his Vindiciae Archimedis of 1616 he described himself as having more wisdom than riches. The executors of François Viète chose him to revise and edit Viète's manuscript works, which he corrected and expanded, extending known geometry to the new algebra. He was first cousin of the mathematician David Anderson of Finshaugh.
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Alexander Anderson (c. 1582 in Aberdeen – c. 1620 in Paris) was a Scottish mathematician. == Life == He was born in Aberdeen, possibly in 1582, according to a print which suggests he was aged 35 in 1617.
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Alexander Anderson (c. 1582 in Aberdeen, c. 1620 in Paris) was a Scottish mathematician. == Life == He was born in Aberdeen, possibly in 1582, according to a print which suggests he was aged 35 in 1617.
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Alexander Anderson (c. 1582 in Aberdeen, c. 1620 in Paris) was a Scottish mathematician. == Life == He was born in Aberdeen, possibly in 1582, according to a print which suggests he was aged 35 in 1617.
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Alexander Anderson (c. 1582 in Aberdeen, c. 1620 in Paris) was a Scottish mathematician. == Life == He was born in Aberdeen, possibly in 1582, according to a print which suggests he was aged 35 in 1617.
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Alexander Anderson (c. 1582 in Aberdeen, c. 1620 in Paris) was a Scottish mathematician. == Life == He was born in Aberdeen, possibly in 1582, according to a print which suggests he was aged 35 in 1617.
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Alexander Anderson (c. 1582 in Aberdeen, c. 1620 in Paris) was a Scottish mathematician. == Life == He was born in Aberdeen, possibly in 1582, according to a print which suggests he was aged 35 in 1617.
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