William Oughtred
by Florian Cajori
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About this eBook
- Author
- Cajori, Florian, 1859-1930
- Title
- William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics
- Credits
- Produced by Brenda Lewis, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at www.pgdpcanada.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QA: Science: Mathematics
- Subject
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- History -- 17th century
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 46815
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46815
- Release Date
- September 9, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.WILLIAM OUGHTRED A GREAT SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TEACHER OF MATHEMATICS
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3.INTRODUCTION
- 4.CHAPTER I OUGHTRED’S LIFE — AT SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY — AS RECTOR AND AMATEUR MATHEMATICIAN — HIS WIFE — IN DANGER OF SEQUESTRATION — HIS TEACHING — APPEARANCE AND HABITS — ALLEGED TRAVEL ABROAD — HIS DEATH
- 5.CHAPTER II PRINCIPAL WORKS — “CLAVIS MATHEMATICAE” — “CIRCLES OF PROPORTION” AND “TRIGONOMETRIE” — SOLUTION OF NUMERICAL EQUATIONS — LOGARITHMS — INVENTION OF THE SLIDE RULE; CONTROVERSY ON PRIORITY OF INVENTION
- 6.CHAPTER III MINOR WORKS
- 7.CHAPTER IV OUGHTRED’S INFLUENCE UPON MATHEMATICAL PROGRESS AND TEACHING — OUGHTRED AND HARRIOT — OUGHTRED’S PUPILS — OUGHTRED, THE “TODHUNTER OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY” — WAS DESCARTES INDEBTED TO OUGHTRED? — THE SPREAD OF OUGHTRED’S NOTATIONS
- 8.CHAPTER V OUGHTRED’S IDEAS ON THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS — GENERAL STATEMENT — MATHEMATICS, “A SCIENCE OF THE EYE” — RIGOROUS THINKING AND THE USE OF INSTRUMENTS — NEWTON’S COMMENTS ON OUGHTRED
- 9.Footnotes
- 10.INDEX
- 11.Transcriber’s Notes
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