Mathematician:Charles Hutton
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Mathematician
English professor at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, who wrote a number of arithmetic textbooks.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: 14 August 1737 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
- Died: 27 January 1823 in London, England
Publications
- 1764: The Schoolmaster's Guide, or a Complete System of Practical Arithmetic
- 1767 -- 1770: A Treatise on Mensuration
- 1770: Plan of Newcastle and Gateshead
- 1772: The Principles of Bridges
- 1773 -- 1818: Editor of The Ladies' Diary
- 1775 $5$ volumes of extracts from The Ladies' Diary
- 1776: A new and general method of finding simple and quickly converging series (in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)
- 1778: The force of fired gunpowder and the velocity of cannon balls (in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)
- 1779: An Account of the Calculations made from the Survey and Measures taken at Schiehallion in order to ascertain the mean density of the Earth
- 1781: Mathematical Tables
- 1784: The Compendious Measurer
- 1787: The Elements of Conic Sections
- 1795: The Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary ($2$ volumes)
- 1798 -- 1801: A course of mathematics for cadets of the Royal Military Academy
- 1803: Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (translation of Récréations Mathématiques et Physiques by Jacques Ozanam, expanded by Jean-Étienne Montucla) (4 volumes)
Sources
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): From Ozanam to Hutton