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Dr Benjamin Wardhaugh holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has been engaged in research and teaching in the history of mathematics since 2006. He has written ten books, including an anthology of 500 years of popular mathematics writing. His research interests span the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and include mathematical theories of music, the transmission of mathematical texts, and the history of mathematics teaching and numeracy in that period.
The editor has done an outstanding job in selecting key examples of Huttons vast correspondence while providing extensive contextual notes for each letter. Recommended. * J. Johnson, CHOICE * The book is a very thorough piece of scholarship. It features a few well-chosen archival images and contains a substantial bibliography and index. It will be of importance to all those with an interest in British mathematical and scientic practitioners of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. * Adrian Rice, MathSciNet * the book is an important contribution to the history of the mathematical sciences in Great Britain during the Georgian period, filling a definite chronological gap. It is, moreover, complementary to historical works on British scientific and educational institutions. * Olivier Bruneau, University of Lorraine, Isis Journal of the History of Science Society *
