Hendrik van Heuraet

Hendrik van Heuraet
Born1634
Haarlem, Dutch Republic
Diedc. 1660
Leiden?, Dutch Republic
Known forIntegral and Calculus
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Academic advisorsFrans van Schooten

Hendrik van Heuraet (1634–c. 1660), also known as Henrici van Heuraet, was a Dutch mathematician. He is noted as one of the founders of the integral, and author of Epistola de Transmutatione Curvarum Linearum in Rectus [On the Transformation of Curves into Straight Lines] (1659).

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