Isaac Todhunter

Isaac Todhunter FRS , was an English mathematician who is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history.

The son of George Todhunter, a Nonconformist minister, and Mary ne Hume, he was born at Rye, Sussex. He was educated at Hastings, where his mother had opened a school after the death of his father in 1826. He became an assistant master at a school at Peckham, attending at the same time evening classes at the University College, London where he was influenced by Augustus De Morgan. In 1842 he obtained a mathematical scholarship and graduated as B.A. at London University, where he was awarded the gold medal on the M.A. examination. About this time he became mathematical master at a school at Wimbledon.

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