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Elfenau Rhifyddiaeth – a fragment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

LL. G. Chambers
LL. G. Chambers*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1UT
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Extract

Over the years 1830-1832, there appeared three volumes of a mathematical textbook in Welsh Elfenau Rhifyddiaeth (the elements of arithmetic) by John William Thomas. The book has long been forgotten and apparently only one specimen now remains, in the Salesbury Library in the Cardiff College of the University of Wales. The treatment and subject matter of the work are in places surprising for that era, and it is worth bringing the contents of the book to light.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 79 , Issue 485 , July 1995 , pp. 293 - 298
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1995

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References

1. Honourable Society of Cymnrodorion, Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940, B. H. Blackwell (1959) p. 955, and references therein.Google Scholar
2. Caffell, Gwenna, Llechi Cerfiedig Dyffryn Ogwen, Amgoueddfa Genadlaethol Cymru, Caerdydd (1983).Google Scholar