Book ID: CBB001213659

Robert Recorde: The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician (2012)

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Roberts, Gareth (Author)
Smith, Fenny (Author)


University of Wales Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 252 pp.
Language: English

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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Review Mann, Tony (2015) Review of "Robert Recorde: The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician". British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin (p. 89). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Craik, Alex D. D.
Mechthild Koreuber
Bergamasco, Immacolata
Frank, Martin
Periton, Cheryl
Williams, Travis Dean
Journals
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
Royal Historical Society. Transactions
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
History of Science
Historia Mathematica
Publishers
Yale University Press
Springer Spektrum
World Scientific
University of Florida
Publicacions de la Universitat de València
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Mathematics
Biographies
Mathematicians
Astronomy
Humanism
Cosmology
People
Recorde, Robert
Pauling, Linus Carl
Wrinch, Dorothy Maud
Wren, Christopher
von Hohenburg, Hans Georg Herwart
Spence, William
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Great Britain
England
United States
Italy
Canada
Turin (Italy)
Institutions
Universität Ingolstadt
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