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5 de ene. de 2021 · William Oughtred Para investigar sobre sus señas de identidad, vayamos primero al nombre, y también a la notación, al símbolo que lo representa. La notación con la letra griega π proviene de la inicial de dos palabras griegas: περιφέρεια (periferia) y περίμετρον (perímetro).
28 de oct. de 2022 · English mathematician William Oughtred was educated at Eton School and King’s College of Cambridge University, although he was largely self-taught in mathematics. He was ordained as a minister in the Church of England in 1603. In 1606, he married Christgift Caryll, who bore him either 12 or 13 children.
William Oughtred also introduced the "×" symbol for multiplication as well as the abbreviations "sin" and "cos" for the sine and cosine functions. Before the invention of the desktop calculator and electronic computers in the mid-20th Century, the slide rule was a very common calculation aid, used by people such as students, engineers, and scientists.
Florian Cajori, William Oughtred, a Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathemetics, (Chicago, 1916). A.J. Turner, "William Oughtred, Richard Delamain and the Horizontral Instrument in Seventeenth Century England," Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienze, Firenze, 6.2 (1981), 99-125.
Welcome. Use the navigation menu or the drop-down lists to discover a world of information! The Oughtred Society was founded in 1991 by a group of slide rule collectors and is dedicated to the preservation and history of slide rules and other calculating instruments. Over the past three decades it has evolved to an international organization ...
William Oughtred [1] 5 March 1574 – 30 June 1660) was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman. John Napier invented logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales. [2] Oughtred was the first to use two such scales. He slid one next to another to do direct multiplication and division.
William Oughtred. Dad passed away peacefully at the Victoria General Hospital on February 21, 2011. Predeceased by his wife, Ruth and brother, Auley; dad will be lovingly remembered by his four children, John (Beti), Bob (Adele), Jane (Dave Green) and Bernard (Judy); his wife Delores; nine grandchildren and eight great- grandchildren.
