Robert recorde mathematician biography index

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    Robert recorde mathematician biography index

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    Born
    1510
    Tenby, Wales
    Died
    1558
    London, England
    Summary
    Recorde was a Welsh doctor and mathematician who invented the "equals" symbol '=' which appears in his book The Whetstone of Witte (1557).

    Biography

    Robert Recorde's parents were Thomas Recorde and Rose Jones.

    Thomas Recorde's father was from Wales and Rose Jones was the daughter of Thomas Jones from Machynlleth in Montgomeryshire. Robert was the second son of Thomas and Rose and, although the date is not definitely known, it is thought that he entered the University of Oxford in about 1525.

    Again we do not know the topics he studied but we do know that he graduated with a B.A. in 1531 and was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in that year.

    All Souls was a graduate College at this time endowed for the study of Church music.

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    It trained men in theology, law and medicine. Certainly we know that he studied medicine at Oxford and was a highly educated man. In later life he was