Recorde Robert - Robert Recorde: the life and times of a Tudor mathematician

J OHN D ENNISS is an independent scholar with an extensive knowledge of early English arithmetic texts.

G ARETH W YN E VANS (19212005) was appointed lecturer in Applied Mathematics at University College Swansea in 1949. He taught at Swansea for thirty-five years, specializing in relativity, quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. He had a strong interest in the history of the development of mathematics, particularly the concept of time.

S TEPHEN J OHNSTON is Assistant Keeper at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. He first met Robert Recorde in the 1980s, as a graduate student working on Elizabethan practical mathematics. His research and teaching still focus on topics in the histories of early modern science, technology and mathematics.

H OWELL A. L LOYD is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Hull. His research interests lie in a range of early modern British and European subject areas, and nowadays principally in the history of ideas.

M ARGARET P ELLING retired in 2009 as Reader in the Social History of Medicine in the History Faculty, University of Oxford. She is now based at the Wellcome Unit at Oxford as a Senior Research Associate. Her research on health, medicine and social conditions focuses primarily on the Tudor and early Stuart periods.

N IA M. W. P OWELL is a lecturer in the School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology at Bangor University where she specializes in social, economic and cultural aspects of early modern Wales.

U LRICH R EICH lectured at the University of Applied Sciences in Karlsruhe in Germany. His research interests in the history of mathematics include the work of Johann Scheubel (14941570) and his link with Recorde.

G ARETH R OBERTS is an Emeritus Professor of Education at Bangor University. He has particular interests in the acquisition of mathematical concepts within bilingual contexts.

F ENNY S MITH is an independent scholar with knowledge of ancient and medieval numerical notation and arithmetic techniques, and Italian Renaissance algebra.

J ACQUELINE S TEDALL is a Senior Research Fellow in History of Mathematics at The Queens College and the Mathematical Institute, Oxford, with a special interest in early modern English mathematics and the development of algebra.

J OHN V. T UCKER is Professor of Computer Science and Head of the School of Physical Sciences at Swansea University. His research uses algebra and logic to understand computing systems. He also has a particular interest in the history of computation, including its social, economic and cultural contexts.

J ACK W ILLIAMS is an independent scholar with interests in Robert Recordes biography, the metallurgy of coinage, mercantile arithmetic and unit fractions.