Wardhaugh, Benjamin: Gunpowder and Geometry

The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
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Charles Hutton's eighteenth to nineteenth century trajectory from the pits to the Royal Society, becoming a mathematician and rebel scientist, presented in a style and tone comparable to "Guns, Germs & Steel" and "The Man Who Knew Infinity".

ISBN: 978-0-00-829998-9
GTIN: 9780008299989

Über den Autor Wardhaugh, Benjamin

Benjamin Wardhaugh is a Fifty-pound Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His research focuses on the history of numeracy and mathematics, and the ways mathematics influences and is a part of cultures. His work focuses mainly on topics in early modern Britain, including mathematical music theory in that period. He has taught in both the Mathematical Institute and the History Faculty. He is the author of Gunpowder and Geometry and Encounters with Euclid.

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