Article ID: CBB262422751

The Gresham Professors of Geometry Part 2: The Next Three Hundred Years (2017)

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The Gresham Chair of Geometry is the oldest mathematics chair in England, and over the past four hundred years thirty-two Gresham professors have presented free lectures on mathematical topics to the general public. In this two-part article we outline the history of these appointments from the founding of Gresham College in 1596 to the present day. In particular, we mention the development of logarithms by Henry Briggs, describe how The Royal Society emerged from Gresham College in the early 1660s, and specify when the statistical terms standard deviation and histogram were first used.

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Authors & Contributors
Cogliati, Alberto
Charles Kostelnick
Meyns, Chris
Battaglia, Fiammetta
Tomassini, Adriano
De Bartolomeis, Paolo
Concepts
Mathematics
Geometry
Medicine
Biographies
Epistemology
Mathematics education
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
21st century
17th century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
Japan
Italy
France
Ottoman Empire
Paris (France)
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Gresham College, London
Royal College of Surgeons, London
Oxford University
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