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Born. c. 1710. African continent (around present-day Liberia and Benin) Died. December 1790. (1791-01) (aged 80) Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. Thomas Fuller (1710 – December 1790), also known as "Negro Demus" and the "Virginia Calculator", was an enslaved African renowned for his mathematical abilities.
[1] [5] Most of the photographs show the chalkboard in a moment drawn from the mathematician's work on it, [1] depicting how mathematicians think, work, and communicate with each other. [5] Some other photographs show chalk drawings that were deliberately created to be photographed for this book. The mathematicians themselves are not depicted. [1]
Alma mater. University of Cambridge. Occupation (s) Clergyman and historian. Known for. Worthies of England. Thomas Fuller (baptised 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published in 1662, after his death.
Alex Eskin (b. 1965), researcher in rational billiards and geometric group theory. Christina Eubanks-Turner, American mathematics educator, graph theorist, and commutative algebraist. Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002) Benson Farb (b. 1965), researcher in geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology. Lisa Fauci, applied mathematician who ...
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Thomas Fuller, M.D. (24 June 1654 – 17 September 1734) was a British physician, preacher and intellectual. Fuller was born in Rosehill, Sussex, and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. [1] He practised medicine at Sevenoaks. [1] In 1723 he published Pharmacopoeia Domestica, and in 1730 Exanthematologia, Or, An Attempt to Give a Rational ...
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Fuller calculator, Fuller-Bakewell model of 1928. The Fuller calculator, sometimes called Fuller's cylindrical slide rule, is a cylindrical slide rule with a helical main scale taking 50 turns around the cylinder. This creates an instrument of considerable precision – it is equivalent to a traditional slide rule 25.40 metres (1,000 inches) long.