Mathematical Messiah: Robert Recorde and the Popularization of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century
Description:
Robert Recorde (c. 1510-1557) was a pioneer in the teaching of mathematics in the English language. His attempt to popularize mathematics, in fact, was without precedent in any language. Mathematics in the 1500s was still exclusively reserved for mathematicians, and people in general had no interest in the subject. Within a hundred years after Recorde had popularized mathematics, however, this situation had changed. The scientific revolution of the seventeenth centuty occurred and mathematics b…
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Date:
August 1980
Creator:
Thavit Sukhabanij
Partner:
UNT Libraries