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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
- Transcriber’s Notes
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