Robert Recorde : The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician

Robert Recorde was the first person to write an original book on arithmetic in English, rather than in the then-standard Latin or Greekand thus the first to write about math in a way that ordinary people could understand. He was, in effect, the first mathematics teacher in the English-speaking world. This biography, which provides a comprehensive overview of Recorde s life and work, traces the major influences on his study and his writing and charts his contribution to the development of mathematical and scientific thinking in Europe."