Robert Recorde : The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician (Paperback)

Name: Robert Recorde : The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician (Paperback)
Brand: Fenny Smith; Gareth Ffowc Roberts
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Robert Recorde was the first person to write an original book on arithmetic in English, rather than in the then-standard Latin or Greek—and thus the first to write about math in a way that ordinary people could understand. He was, in effect, the first mathematics teacher in the English-speaking world. This biography, which provides a comprehensive overview of Recorde’s life and work, traces the major influences on his study and his writing and charts his contribution to the development of mathematical and scientific thinking in Europe.

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Paperback
Fiction/nonfiction
Non-Fiction
Genre
History
Pub date
2014-02-15
Pages
232
Number in series
1

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Recent research has revealed new information about the Welsh Tudor mathematician, Robert Recorde who invented the equals sign (=) – what inspired his work and what was its influence on the development of mathematics education in the English-speaking world. The findings of that research, presented at a commemorative conference in 2008, form the core of this publication. The book begins with an account of Recorde’s life and an overview of his work in mathematics, medicine and cosmography. Individual chapters concentrate on each of his books in turn, taken chronologically, and are supplemented by chapters that present historical perspectives of Recorde’s work and its wider European links and one that sets Recorde’s work within the general knowledge economy.

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Paperback

Fiction/nonfiction

Non-Fiction

Genre

History

Pub date

2014-02-15

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