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WILLIAM OUGHTRED (fl. 1575-166o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 378 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:OUGHTRED (fl. 1575-166o)  , See also:English mathematician, was See also:born at See also:Eton, and educated there and at See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, of which he became See also:fellow . Being admitted to See also:holy orders, he See also:left the university about 1603, and was presented to the rectory of Aldbury, near See also:Guildford in See also:Surrey; and about 1628 he was appointed by the See also:earl of See also:Arundel to instruct his son in See also:mathematics . He corresponded with some of the most eminent scholars of his See also:time on mathematical subjects; and his See also:house was generally full of pupils from all quarters . It is said that he expired in a sudden transport of joy upon See also:hearing the See also:news of the See also:vote at See also:Westminster for the restoration of See also:Charles II . He published, among other mathematical See also:works, Clavis Mathematica, in 1631, in which he introduced new signs for certain mathematical operations (see See also:ALGEBRA) ; a See also:treatise on See also:navigation entitled Circles of Proportion, in 1632; works on See also:trigonometry and dialling, and his Opuscula Mathematica, published posthumously in 1676 .

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