Robert Recorde
The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician
University of Wales Press
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2012
320 pages
978-0-7083-2527-8 (ISBN)
Description
The inventor of the equals sign (=), Robert Recorde (1510?-1558) was the first English-writing mathematics educator: this book celebrates his work.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
File size
3,67 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7083-2527-8 (9780708325278)
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The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician
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The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician
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Persons
Gareth Roberts is an Emeritus Professor of Education at Bangor University. He has particular interests in the acquisition of mathematical concepts within bilingual contexts. Fenny Smith is an independent scholar with knowledge of ancient and medieval numerical notation and arithmetic techniques, and Italian Renaissance algebra.
Content
1 The lives and works of Robert Recorde Jack Williams 2 Robert Recorde and his remarkable Arithmetic John Denniss and Fenny Smith 3 Recorde and The Vrinal of Physick: context, uroscopy and the practice of medicine Margaret Pelling 4 The Pathway to Knowledg and the English Euclidean tradition Jacqueline Stedall 5 The Castle of Knowledge: astronomy and the sphere Stephen Johnston 6 The Whetstone of Witte: content and sources Ulrich Reich 7 The Welsh context of Robert Recorde Nia M. W. Powell 8 Commonwealth and Empire: Robert Recorde in Tudor England Howell A. Lloyd 9 Data, computation and the Tudor knowledge economy John V. Tucker
