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Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry - The First 400 Years (Hardcover)
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Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry - The First 400 Years (Hardcover)
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The Savilian Professorships in Geometry and Astronomy at Oxford
University were founded in 1619 by Sir Henry Savile, distinguished
scholar and Warden of Merton College. The Geometry chair, in
particular, is the earliest University-based mathematics
professorship in England, predating the first Cambridge equivalent
by about sixty years. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the
founding of the geometry chair, a meeting was held at the Bodleian
Library in Oxford, and the talks presented at this meeting have
formed the basis for this fully edited and lavishly illustrated
book, which outlines the first 400 years of Oxford's Savilian
Professors of Geometry. Starting with Henry Briggs, the co-inventor
of logarithms, this volume proceeds via such figures as John
Wallis, a founder member of the Royal Society, and Edmond Halley,
via the 19th-century figures of Stephen Rigaud, Baden Powell, Henry
Smith, and James Joseph Sylvester, to the 20th century and the
present day. Oxford's Savilian Professors of Geometry: The First
400 Years assumes no mathematical background, and should therefore
appeal to the interested general reader with an interest in
mathematics and the sciences. It should also be of interest to
anyone interested in the history of mathematics or of the
development of Oxford and its namesake university. To all of these
audiences it offers portraits of mathematicians at work and an
accessible exposition of historical mathematics in the context of
its times.
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