Editing David Gregory (mathematician) (section)

{{Short description|Scottish mathematician and astronomer}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = David Gregory
| image             = david gregory mathematician.jpg
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| birth_date        = 3 June 1659
| birth_place       = [[Aberdeen]], Scotland
| death_date        = {{death date and age|1708|10|10|1659|6|3|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Maidenhead]], Berkshire, England
| citizenship       = 
| nationality       = Scottish
| ethnicity         = 
| field             = Mathematics
| work_institutions = [[University of Edinburgh]]<br>[[Balliol College, Oxford]]
| alma_mater        = [[Marischal College]], [[University of Aberdeen]]<br>[[University of Leiden]]
| doctoral_advisor  = 
| notable_students  = [[John Keill]]<br>[[John Craig (mathematician)|John Craig]]
| known_for         = Development of infinite series
| prizes            = 
| footnotes         = He is the nephew of [[James Gregory (astronomer and mathematician)|James Gregory]].
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}}
'''David Gregory''' (originally spelt '''Gregorie''') [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (3 June 1659<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1098/rsnr.1970.0026 | title=David Gregory's inaugural lecture at Oxford | journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London | year=1970 | volume=25 | issue=2 | pages=143–178 | s2cid=143551983 | doi-access=free }}</ref> – 10 October 1708) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He was professor of mathematics at the [[University of Edinburgh]], and later [[Savilian Professor of Astronomy]] at the [[University of Oxford]], and a proponent of [[Isaac Newton]]'s ''[[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica|Principia]]''.