Mathematician:Charles Hutton

Mathematician

English professor at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, who wrote a number of arithmetic textbooks.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 14 August 1737 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
• Died: 27 January 1823 in London, England

Publications

• 1764: The Schoolmaster's Guide, or a Complete System of Practical Arithmetic
• 1767 -- 1770: A Treatise on Mensuration
• 1770: Plan of Newcastle and Gateshead
• 1772: The Principles of Bridges

• 1773 -- 1818: Editor of The Ladies' Diary

• 1775 $5$ volumes of extracts from The Ladies' Diary

• 1776: A new and general method of finding simple and quickly converging series (in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)
• 1778: The force of fired gunpowder and the velocity of cannon balls (in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)
• 1779: An Account of the Calculations made from the Survey and Measures taken at Schiehallion in order to ascertain the mean density of the Earth
• 1781: Mathematical Tables
• 1784: The Compendious Measurer
• 1787: The Elements of Conic Sections
• 1795: The Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary ($2$ volumes)
• 1798 -- 1801: A course of mathematics for cadets of the Royal Military Academy
• 1803: Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (translation of Récréations Mathématiques et Physiques by Jacques Ozanam, expanded by Jean-Étienne Montucla) (4 volumes)
  • 1840: Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, revised ed. (with Edward Riddle)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Charles Hutton": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): From Ozanam to Hutton