Mathematician:John Collins

Mathematician

English mathematician whose principal influence consisted of a copious correspondence with the other leading minds of his day.

Mainly worked as a teacher and an accountant, and authored some books.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 25 March 1625, Wood Eaton, Oxfordshire, England
• Died: 10 November 1683, Garlick Hill, London, England

Publications

• 1652: An Introduction to Merchants' Accounts
• 1659: The Sector on a Quadrant
• 1659: Geometrical Dialling
• 1659: The Mariner's Plain Scale New Plained
• 1664: Doctrine of Decimal Arithmetick
• 1680: A Plea for the bringing in of Irish Cattel, and keeping out Fish caught by Foreigners, together with an humble Address to the Honourable Members of Parliament of the counties of Cornwall and Devon, about the Advancement of Tin, Fishery, and divers Manufactures
• 1682: Salt and Fishery
• 1685: Doctrine of Decimal Arithmetick (second edition)
• 1688: Arithmetic in whole Numbers and Fractions, both Vulgar and Decimal, with Tables for the Forbearance and Rebate of Money, &c.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "John Collins": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive