William Oughtred A great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics
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WILLIAM OUGHTRED A GREAT SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TEACHER OF MATHEMATICS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I OUGHTRED’S LIFE
AT SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY
AS RECTOR AND AMATEUR MATHEMATICIAN
HIS WIFE
IN DANGER OF SEQUESTRATION
HIS TEACHING
APPEARANCE AND HABITS
ALLEGED TRAVEL ABROAD
HIS DEATH
CHAPTER II PRINCIPAL WORKS
“CLAVIS MATHEMATICAE”
“CIRCLES OF PROPORTION” AND “TRIGONOMETRIE”
SOLUTION OF NUMERICAL EQUATIONS
LOGARITHMS
INVENTION OF THE SLIDE RULE; CONTROVERSY ON PRIORITY OF INVENTION
CHAPTER III MINOR WORKS
CHAPTER IV OUGHTRED’S INFLUENCE UPON MATHEMATICAL PROGRESS AND TEACHING
OUGHTRED AND HARRIOT
OUGHTRED’S PUPILS
OUGHTRED, THE “TODHUNTER OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY”
WAS DESCARTES INDEBTED TO OUGHTRED?
THE SPREAD OF OUGHTRED’S NOTATIONS
CHAPTER V OUGHTRED’S IDEAS ON THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS
GENERAL STATEMENT
MATHEMATICS, “A SCIENCE OF THE EYE”
RIGOROUS THINKING AND THE USE OF INSTRUMENTS
NEWTON’S COMMENTS ON OUGHTRED
Footnotes
INDEX
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