Johannes Hudde

Johannes Hudde
Johannes van Waveren Hudde
Born	23 April 1628 Amsterdam
Died	15 April 1704 Amsterdam
Alma mater	Leiden University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Academic advisors	Frans van Schooten

Johannes (van Waveren) Hudde (23 April 1628 – 15 April 1704) was a burgomaster (mayor) of Amsterdam between 1672 – 1703, a mathematician and governor of the Dutch East India Company.

As a "burgemeester" of Amsterdam he ordered that the city canals should be flushed at high tide and that the polluted water of the town "secreten" should be diverted to pits outside the town instead of into the canals. He also promoted hygiene in and around the town's water supply. "Hudde's stones" were marker stones that were used to mark the summer high water level at several points in the city. They later were the foundation for the "

Hudde studied law at the

• History of group theory
• Mercator series
• Tangent

References

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1. ^ J.P.M Kwaad Het Normal Amsterdam Peil (NAP) (Dutch)

• Karlheinz Haas (1956) "Die mathematischen Arbeiten von Johann Hudde (1628 to 1704) Bürgermeister von Amsterdam",
  doi:10.1111/j.1600-0498.1956.tb00477.x
• J. Hudde (1656) Specilla circularia (circular Lens, in Dutch)

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Johannes Hudde", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
• Johannes Hudde at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Tomb of Johannes Hudde at Oude Kerk from Gravenopinternet