Robert Woodhouse was a British mathematician and astronomer, born in Norwich on 28 April 1773, the son of a draper. Admitted to Caius College, Cambridge, in 1790, he graduated as Senior Wrangler and first Smith's prizeman in 1795. He tried to bring continental methods into English mathematics, publishing a paper on elliptic integrals in 1804. His books include a treatise on plane and spherical trigonometry in 1809, a treatise on isoperimetrical problems and the calculus of variations in 1810, a treatise on astronomy in 1812 and a work on gravitation in 1818. He died in Cambridge in 1827.
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On 20 May 1790 he was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge
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A Treatise on Isoperimetrical Problems and the Calculus of Variations
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published a paper on elliptic integrals in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
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