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By Walter William Rouse Ball
For hundreds of years, Cambridge college has attracted the various world's maximum mathematicians. This 1889 ebook offers a compelling account of ways arithmetic built at Cambridge from the center a while to the overdue 19th century, from the point of view of a number one pupil dependent at Trinity university who used to be heavily inquisitive about instructing the topic. The achievements of striking participants together with Newton and his university are set within the context of the historical past of the college, its occasionally uneasy dating with town neighborhood, the varsity procedure, and the foundation and development of the mathematical tripos.
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At the beginning of the sixteenth century the names of Master, Paynell, and Tonstall occur. Of these Richard Master, a fellow of King's, is said to have been famous for his knowledge of natural philosophy. He entered at King's in 1502, and was proctor in 1511. He took up the cause of the holy maid of Kent and was executed for treason in April, 1534. Nicholas Paynell, a fellow of Pembroke Hall, graduated B. A. in 1515. In 1530 he was appointed mathematical lecturer to the university. The date of his death is unknown.
The Clavis, first edition 1631; second edition with an appendix on numerical equations 1648; third edition greatly enlarged, 1652. The circle of proportion, 1632; second edition 1660. The double horizontal dial, 1636 ; second edition 1652. Sun-dials by geometry, 1647. The horological ring, 1653. Solution of all spherical triangles, 1657'. Trigonometry, 1657. , 1657. And lastly a posthumous work entitled Opuscula mathematica hactenus inedita, issued in 1677. J u s t as Briggs was the most famous English geometrician of that time, so to his contemporaries Oughtred was probably the most celebrated exponent of algorism.
We come then to the names of Horrox and Seth Ward, both of whom were well-known astronomers; to Pell, who was later in intimate relations with Newton; and lastly to Wallis and to Barrow, who were the first Englishmen to treat mathematics as a science rather than as an art, and who may be said to have introduced the methods of modern mathematics into Britain. It curiously happened that in the absence of any endowments for mathematics at Cambridge both Ward and Wallis were elected to professorships at Oxford, and by their energy and tact created the Oxford mathematical school of the latter half of the seventeenth century.