Robert Recorde : the Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician.
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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Cardiff :
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2012
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Table of Contents:
- The lives and works of Robert Recorde / Jack Williams
- Robert Recorde and his remarkable arithmetic / John Denniss and Fenny Smith
- Recorde and The vrinal of physick : context, uroscopy and the practice of medicine / Margaret Pelling
- The pathway to knowledge and the English Euclidean tradition / Jacqueline Stedall - The castle of knowledge : astronomy and the sphere / Stephen Johnston
- The whetstone of Witte : content and sources / Ulrich Reich
- The Welsh context of Robert Recorde / Nia M. W. Powell
- Commonwealth and empire : Robert Recorde in Tudor England / Howell A. Lloyd
- Data, computation and the Tudor knowledge economy / John V. Tucker
- Appendix: From Recorde to relativity : a speculation / Gareth Wyn Evans.
