Download or read book The Whetstone of Witte Whiche is the Seconde Parte of Arithmetike written by Robert Record and published by . This book was released on 1557 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Robert Recorde written by Jack Williams and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 16th-Century intellectual Robert Recorde is chiefly remembered for introducing the equals sign into algebra, yet the greater significance and broader scope of his work is often overlooked. This book presents an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the man, his achievements and his historical importance. This scholarly yet accessible work examines the latest evidence on all aspects of Recorde’s life, throwing new light on a character deserving of greater recognition. Topics and features: presents a concise chronology of Recorde’s life; examines his published works; describes Recorde’s professional activities in the minting of money and the mining of silver, as well as his dispute with William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; investigates Recorde’s work as a physician, his linguistic and antiquarian interests, and his religious beliefs; discusses the influence of Recorde’s publisher, Reyner Wolfe, in his life; reviews his legacy to 17th-Century science, and to modern computer science and mathematics.
Download or read book The Whetstone of Witte written by Robert Recorde and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sole edition of Robert Recorde's The Whetstone of Witte was printed at London by John Kingston in 1557. One of Recorde's concerns in this book is to develop not only a means of representing powers of numbers, but also a means of naming them. Prior to the development of a numerical index notation, the names given to the powers was of considerable importance. Hence in these pages we find terminology which is now archaic, for instance the strange word zenzizenzizenzike, the name for the eighth power of a number. It is generally acknowledged that Recorde's treatise on algebra, in the section entitled The arte of cossike numbers, is the first to be printed in the English language. Although this work owes much to the German mathematicians Christoff Rudolff and Michael Stifel, it does have one well known claim to originality; the first use of two parallel lines as the sign for equality (because noe 2 thyngs, can be moare equalle). Recorde's invention of the equals sign =, together with his adoption of the + sign (which betokeneth more) and the minus sign – (which betokeneth less) placed him at the very forefront of European practice. Like most of Recorde's books, The Whetstone is written in the form of a dialogue between a learned master and a clever, but rather precocious, scholar. After being patiently encouraged through the seconde parte of arithmetic (begun by the scholar in Recorde's first book, The Grounde of Artes) followed by the extraction of rootes, the scholar remarks 'I am moche bounde unto you … Trusting so to applie my studie, and emploie my knowlege, that it shall never repente you of your curtesie in this behalfe'. To which the master, about to start an exposition on the difficult and strange cossike arte (algebra), replies 'Then marke well my words, and you shall perceive, that I will use as moche plainesse, as I maie, in teaching : And therefore will beginne with cossick numbers first'. Here Recorde is again using terminology that is now archaic. In his day algebra was called the cossic art, derived from the Latin cosa, meaning 'thing'. The Whetstone also includes a lengthy treatise on the arte of surde nombers, that is, on irrational numbers.
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Download or read book Robert Recorde written by Gordon Roberts and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full-length biography of Robert Recorde. This will benefit general readers wanting a chronological history of his life, or those interested in learning more about him in relation to other events in the Tudor period. Two chapters devoted to Recorde’s academic studies at Oxford and Cambridge. This will benefit readers interested in the life of scholars at university during the Tudor period. Describes the training and practice of a physician, of interest to readers pursuing the history of medicine in the Tudor period. Book contains numerous extracts from Recorde’s own writings transcribed into Modern English. Of benefit to readers wanting to read the original texts written in Early Modern English.
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