Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Matthew Stewart (1717 - January 23, 1785) was born at Rothesay in 1717 and died at Edinburgh on January 23, 1785. He succeeded Maclaurin in his chair at the University of Edinburgh, being a mathematician of considerable power, for his theorems on the problem of three bodies, and for his discussion, treated by transversals and involution, of the properties of the circle and straight line. Original entry based on the public domain Rouse History of Mathematics Additional information can be found at http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst477.html This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.