Thomas Fincke, born Thomas Jacobsen Fincke in Flensburg in Schleswig on 6 January 1561 and dead on 24 April 1656, was a Danish mathematician and physicist and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than sixty years. The son of Councillor Jacob Fincke, he studied mathematics, rhetoric and other philosophical subjects for five years from 1577 at the University of Strasbourg. His lasting achievement is the book Geometria rotundi of 1583, in which he introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant. He became professor of mathematics at Copenhagen in 1590 and added a professorship of medicine in 1603, and his daughters married the scientist Caspar Bartholin the Elder, the botanist Jørgen Fuiren, the historian Ole Worm and the theologian Hans Brochmand.
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Thomas Fincke (6 January 1561 – 24 April 1656) was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years. == Biography == Thomas Jacobsen Fincke was born in Flensburg in Schleswig.
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His parents, Raadmand Jacob Fincke and Anna thor Smede ( or Thorsmede), came from the most respected families in Flensburg.
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Thomas Fincke (6 January 1561-24 April 1656) was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years. == Biography == Thomas Jacobsen Fincke was born in Flensburg in Schleswig.
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