Robert Recorde : the Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician.

Roberts, Gareth.

Robert Recorde : the Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (252 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The lives and works of Robert Recorde / Robert Recorde and his remarkable arithmetic / Recorde and The vrinal of physick : context, uroscopy and the practice of medicine / The pathway to knowledge and the English Euclidean tradition / The castle of knowledge : astronomy and the sphere / The whetstone of Witte : content and sources / The Welsh context of Robert Recorde / Commonwealth and empire : Robert Recorde in Tudor England / Data, computation and the Tudor knowledge economy / From Recorde to relativity : a speculation / Jack Williams -- John Denniss and Fenny Smith -- Margaret Pelling -- Jacqueline Stedall - Stephen Johnston -- Ulrich Reich -- Nia M. W. Powell -- Howell A. Lloyd -- John V. Tucker -- Gareth Wyn Evans. Appendix:

The inventor of the equals sign (=), Robert Recorde (1510?-1558) was the first English-writing mathematics educator: this book celebrates his work.


English.

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016185139 Uk 017664069 Uk


Recorde, Robert, 1510?-1558.
Recorde, Robert, 1510?-1558.
Recorde, Robert, 1510?-1558.


Mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography.
Physicians.
Medicine--History.
Physicians
History of Medicine
History, 16th Century
Mathematics--history
Science--history
Mathématiciens--Grande-Bretagne--Biographies.
Médecins.
Médecine--Histoire.
Médecine--Histoire--16e siècle.
physicians.
history of medicine.
MATHEMATICS--History & Philosophy.
Mathematicians.


Wales.
Wales
England
Pays de Galles.
Great Britain.


Electronic books.
Biography
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.

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