Joseph Raphson

Joseph Raphson
Joseph Raphson by Iraqi polymath Muntadher Saleh
Bornc. 1668
Middlesex, England
Diedc. 1712
England
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forNewton–Raphson method
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
Signature

Joseph Raphson (c. 1668 – c. 1715) was an English mathematician and intellectual known best for the Newton–Raphson method.

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