Hendrik van Heuraet (1633, Haarlem - 1660?,

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) was a Dutch

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also known as Henrici van Heuraet. He is noted as one of the founders of the

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, and author of ''Epistola de Transmutatione Curvarum Linearum in Rectus'' 'On the Transformation of Curves into Straight Lines''(1659).Mathematical Treasures - Van Heuraet's Rectification of Curves
Frank J. Swetz, Victor J. Katz, Mathematical Association of America (maa.org) Accessed: 10-13-2016 From 1653 he studied at Leiden University where he interacted with Frans van Schooten,

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, and Christiaan Huygens. In 1658 he and Hudde left for Saumur in France. He returned to Leiden the next year as a

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. After this his trail is lost.

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Geometria, à Renato Des Cartes Anno 1637
' (1683) with ''Epistola de Transmutatione Curvarum Linearum in Rectus'', p. 517, @GoogleBooks.

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(Dutch) 1634 births 1660s deaths 17th-century Dutch mathematicians People from Haarlem Leiden University alumni {{Europe-mathematician-stub