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English mathematician (1574–1660)

William Oughtred (5 March 1574 – 30 June 1660),^[1] also Owtred, Uhtred, etc., was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman.^[2][3][4] After John Napier discovered logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales (lines, or rules) upon which slide rules are based, Oughtred was the first to use two such scales sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division.

He is credited with inventing the slide rule in about 1622.^[5] He also introduced the "×" symbol for multiplication and the abbreviations "sin" and "cos" for the sine and cosine functions.^[6]

Clerical life

Education

The son of Benjamin Oughtred of Eton in Buckinghamshire (now part of Berkshire), William was born there on 5 March 1574/75 and was educated at Eton College, where his father, a writing-master, was one of his teachers.^[7] Oughtred had a passion fo William Oughtred - Wikiwand GID