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Hace 2 días · William Oughtred was a country parson. Henry Briggs, Seth Ward, and John Wallis all held mathematical chairs at Oxford, the last two being also members of the group out of which the Royal Society developed.
Hace 3 días · Efemérides del 5 de Marzo en Venezuela. Nace William Oughtred (1574) | Sacerdote anglicano y matemático británico, conocido por crear las reglas de cálculo lineales y circulares, así como por introducir el símbolo "×" para la multiplicación.
Hace 2 días · 1630: Slide rule: invented by William Oughtred; 1642: Mechanical calculator. The Pascaline is built by Blaise Pascal. 1643: Barometer: invented by Evangelista Torricelli, or possibly up to three years earlier by Gasparo Berti. 1650: Vacuum pump: Invented by Otto von Guericke. 1656: Pendulum clock: Invented by Christiaan Huygens.
Hace 3 días · The earliest known use of the Greek letter π to represent the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter was by the Welsh mathematician William Jones in 1706. The invention of calculus soon led to the calculation of hundreds of digits of π, enough for all practical scientific computations.
Hace 1 día · Fondecyt es el Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico, Tecnológico y de Innovación Tecnológica, una iniciativa del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica (CONCYTEC)
Hace 2 días · William was the only child of William II, Prince of Orange, and Mary, Princess Royal, the daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland. His father died a week before his birth, making William III the prince of Orange from birth.
Hace 2 días · William Oughtred, the famous mathematician of his day, was rector from 1610 to 1660, holding the preferment through the Civil War time till he died in possession a month after the Restoration. Samuel Horsley, afterwards Bishop of Rochester and of St. Asaph, was rector 1774–80.
