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

By:

Roberts, Gareth

Contributor(s):

Smith, Fenny

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (252 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780708325278
0708325270
9781783161089
1783161086

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

510.92

LOC classification:

QA29

NLM classification:

2014 C-053
WZ 100

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Contents:

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

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