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The Gresham Professors of Geometry Part 1: The First one 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
Rossini, Paolo
Pavel Sládek
Wilson, Robin J.
Warren, Michelle R.
Sonar, Thomas
Scriba, Christoph J.
Concepts
Mathematics
Geometry
Perspective
Science and art
Astronomy
Arithmetic
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Renaissance
Early modern
15th century
Places
Italy
Europe
England
Mediterranean region
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Gresham College, London
Oxford University
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