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100	1		_aWardhaugh, Benjamin, _d1979- _930208
245	1	0	_aPoor Robin's prophecies : _ba curious almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain / _cBenjamin Wardhaugh.
260			_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2012.
300			_a248 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aAuthor, astrologer, journalist, satirist, and 'well-willer to the mathematics', Poor Robin of Saffron Walden was a fantastic, yet invented, figure of British popular culture from the Restoration to the end of the Georgian period. Poor Robin's Almanac first appeared in 1662, developing an enthusiastic following and long outliving its original creator to last until 1828. Benjamin Wardhaugh tells the great story of Georgian popular mathematics - through Poor Robin's remarkable life, from his humble beginnings as an almanac-writer through to best-selling stardom, controversy, and decline. Using the character, wit, and columns of Poor Robin, Wardhaugh explores the mathematics of ordinary people, from learning sums to using mathematics in weighing and measuring, in business, agriculture, map-making, and navigation. This is a history of mathematics that is rarely thought about -- creative, popular, and led by practical and social needs. It is centered on the ordinary people that used it. Their names remain little-known; their solutions have vanished along with the situations that required them; but their energy and ideas - as captured by Poor Robin - create a wonderfully rich picture of what mathematics can be, and has been.
600	0	0	_aPoor Robin. _930209
650		0	_aMathematics _zEngland _xHistory _y18th century. _930210
650		0	_aMathematics _zEngland _xHistory _y19th century. _930211
650		0	_aAlmanacs, English _y18th century. _930212
650		0	_aAlmanacs, English _y19th century. _930213
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xHistory _y1714-1837. _911935
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