'''Alexander Anderson''' (c. [[1582]]-[[1620]]) was a Scottish [[mathematician]] born in [[Aberdeen]]. In his youth he went to the continent and taught mathematics in [[Paris]], where he published or edited, between the years [[1612]] and [[1619]], various [[geometric]] and [[algebraic]] tracts.

He was selected by the executors of [[François Viète]] to revise and edit Viete's manuscript works. The works of Anderson amount to six thin quarto volumes, and as the last of them was published in [[1619]], it is probable that the author died soon after that year, but the precise date is unknown.

==References==
*{{1911}}

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[[Category:1580s births]]
[[Category:1620 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Aberdeen]]
[[Category:Scottish mathematicians]]
[[Category:17th century mathematicians]]
[[Category:Scottish scholars and academics]]
[[Category:University of Paris]]

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