Mathematician:Charles Hutton

Mathematician
English mathematician who wrote 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


 * 1775 $5$ volumes of extracts from


 * 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