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William Oughtred (5 March 1574 – 30 June 1660), [1] also Owtred, Uhtred, etc., was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman. [2] [3] [4] After John Napier discovered logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales (lines, or rules) upon which slide rules are based, Oughtred was the first to use two such scales sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and ...
His earliest published work Grammelogia was dedicated to Charles I.It was attacked in William Oughtred's Circles of Proportion (1631), on grounds of plagiarism: Oughtred had taught Delamaine, and considered that the work simply reproduced his mathematical instruments without any serious understanding of the theory on which they depended. [1]
Clavis mathematicae (English: The Key of Mathematics) is a mathematics book written by William Oughtred, originally published in 1631 in Latin.It was an attempt to communicate the contemporary mathematical practices, and the European history of mathematics, into a concise and digestible form.
Oughtred or Ughtred is an Anglo-Saxon English given name and surname. It means "son of Uhtred ", being derived from the old English Ūhtrǣd composed of the elements uht "twilight, dusk" and ræd "advice".
His premature death may have been hastened by osteitis deformans. [2] Matilda (Empress Maud) Angevins or Plantagenets (England) February 1102 1141 10 September 1167 Henry II: 5 March 1133 1154–1189 6 July 1189 He collapsed into shock and fever and eventually died. William I: House of Dunkeld (Scotland) c. 1143 1165–1214 4 December 1214 ...
Sir Anthony Ughtred or Oughtred, Knight banneret [4] [5] (c. 1478 – 6 October 1534 [2]) was an English soldier and military administrator during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Ughtred fought in Ireland, the Anglo Scottish border and both on land and at sea in France.
[2] Boris Bim-Bad, 81, Russian educator. [3] William E. Cooper, 93, American major general. [4] Ted Donaldson, 89, American actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Adventures of Rusty, Father Knows Best), complications from a fall. [5] Charles Harrington Elster, 65, American writer and broadcaster (A Way with Words), cancer. [6]
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.