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Robert Recorde : the life and times of a Tudor mathematician / edited by Gareth Roberts and Fenny Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Recorde, Robert, 1510?-1558.
- Recorde, Robert.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The inventor of the equals sign (=), Robert Recorde (1510?-1558) was the first English-writing mathematics educator: this book celebrates his work.
- Contents:
- List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Editorial conventions; Introduction; The lives and works of Robert Recorde; Robert Recorde and his remarkable Arithmetic; Recorde and The Vrinal of Physick: context, uroscopy and thepractice of medicine; The Pathway to Knowledg 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 speculationBibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299201422
- 1299201423
- 9780708325278
- 0708325270
- OCLC:
- 813004741
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