Oliver Byrne (mathematician)

Oliver Byrne ( * 1810 in Leiden, † December 9, 1880 in London) was an Irish mathematician who is now particularly through its graphical editing of the first six books of Euclid known. In his time the processing was not viewed as a serious business, but rather as a curiosity. 429 Today's interest in Byrne's works, and especially to his The Elements of Euclid is related to the impression one of his edits in Edward Tufte's Envisioning Information :84 -87 ( visualization of information ) and the following annotated reprint of the work together.

Curriculum vitae

Very little is known about the CV of Oliver Byrne and especially his education. At the age of 20 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the College of Civil Engineers in Putney, Surrey, England. In 1847 he published in one volume his editing of the first six books of Euclid, with numerous color drawings. It was one of the first multi-colored printed and not hand -colored books.

Byrne was the official surveyor of the settlements in the Falkland Islands.

In the 1850s he traveled through the United States of America and has published texts in 1853 in Boston, Massachusetts, his treatise entitled Freedom to Ireland ( freedom for Ireland).

Byrne invented mechanical calculating devices, the Byrne graph and Gauger 's Patent Calculating instrument.

Works

  • A Short Practical Treatise on Spherical trigonometry, Valpy, 1835, ISBN 978-1-110-89691-2.
  • How to Measure the Earth with the assistance of Railroads, Currie and Bowman ( Newcastle), 1838.
  • New and Improved System of Logarithms, Day (London), 1838.
  • The Creed of St. Athanasius, under the pseudonym: E. B. Revilo, 1839.
  • The Practical, complete and correct Gager, Containing a description of Parker and Byrne's patent Calculating Instruments; With Their use and application, Bailey (London), 1840. too Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster Row, London, 1841.
  • The Fifth Book of Euclid Simplified, 1841.
  • Description and Use of the Byrne graph to instrument for Multiplying, dividing and comparing lines, angles, surfaces and solids, C. and J. Adlard (London), 1846.
  • The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in Which colored diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the Greater ease of learners, 1847.
  • The Miscellaneous Mathematical Papers of O ( liver ) B ( yrne ), L. Maynard, ed John Byrne, 1848.
  • Pocket Book for Railroad and Civil Engineers, Shepherd (New York), 1851.
  • The Practical Metal - Worker's assistant, Baird (Philadelphia ), 1851, ISBN 978-1-151-79618-9.
  • The Practical Model Calculator, Baird (Philadelphia ), 1852, ISBN 978-1-145-93075-9.
  • Appleton's Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics, Engine Work and Engineering, Oliver Byrne (editor), 2 vols, Daniel Appleton and Co., 1852.
  • Lectures on the Art and Science of War, Donahoe ( Boston), 1853.
  • The Creed of Saint Athanasius Proved by a Mathematical parallel (a satire ), 1859.
  • The Handbook for the Artisan, Mechanic, and Engineer, Collins ( Philadelphia ), 1853.
  • Dual Arithmetic, A New Way, Bell & Daldy (London), 1865, ISBN 978-1-141-92119-5.
  • The Young Dual Arithmetician, Bell & Daldy, 1865.
  • The Young Geometrician, or Practical geometry without compasses, Chapman and Hall (London), 1865, ISBN 978-1-143-82512-5 ( online here )
  • Tables of Logarithms Dual, Dual Numbers, and CORRESPONDING Natural Numbers, Bell & Daldy, 1867
  • The Essential Elements of Practical Mechanics, based on the principal of work, designed for engineering students, Spon (London), 1868.
  • General Method of Solving Equations of all degress, Applied particularly to equations of the second, third, fourth and fifth, Spon (London), 1868.
  • Spon 's Dictionary of Engineering, Spon, 1869 - 1874.
  • The Calculus of Form, 1870.
  • Byrne's Treatise on navigation and nautical Astronomy, Oliver Byrne, 1875.
  • The Geometry of Compasses, Lockwood ( London), 1877, ISBN 978-1-104-05805-0.

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