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Mathematical Practitioner
A mathematical practitioner is a term applied to a range of craftsmen, technicians and teachers who used mathematics in a practical way, particularly between 1485 and 1840. In her foundational text, ''The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England'', Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor introduced the phrase in 1954. In this book she argued that without these "lesser men", the great scientists of that period would have had little impact. in a further volume ''Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England, 1714–1840'' published posthumously in 1966, she argued that by 1840 different specialities had developed within the category she had defined, that it no longer made sense to treat them as a coherent body of practitioners. References {{reflist Mathematical practitioners Artisans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor
Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor (22 June 1879–5 July 1966) was a British geographer and historian of science, the first woman to hold an academic chair of geography in the United Kingdom. Early life and education Taylor was born on 22 June 1879 in Highgate. Her mother ran away three years later and her upbringing after this was strict. She was educated at home and at the Camden School for Girls, the North London Collegiate School, and Royal Holloway College. In 1903 she obtained a first class BSc in chemistry from the University of London. Career While teaching chemistry at Burton Upon Trent School for Girls and later at a convent school, Taylor studied at the University of Oxford. From 1908 to 1910 acted as research assistant to A. J. Herbertson, head of the School of Geography. She wrote school geography textbooks in collaboration with John Frederick Unstead. Taylor worked whilst caring for a family (she had three sons, one of whom died in infancy) and lectured part-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematical Practitioners
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include number theory (the study of numbers), algebra (the study of formulas and related structures), geometry (the study of shapes and spaces that contain them), analysis (the study of continuous changes), and set theory (presently used as a foundation for all mathematics). Mathematics involves the description and manipulation of abstract objects that consist of either abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicspurely abstract entities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. Mathematics uses pure reason to prove properties of objects, a ''proof'' consisting of a succession of applications of deductive rules to already established results. These results include previously proved theorems, axioms, andin case of abstraction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
