William Oughtred, also Owtred, Uhtred, etc., was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman. After John Napier invented logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales upon which slide ... Wikipedia
Born: March 5, 1574, Eton, United Kingdom
Died: June 30, 1660 (age 86 years), Albury, United Kingdom
Education: King's College, Cambridge (1600), King's College, Cambridge (1596), and Eton College
Known for: Slide rule; Multiplication "×" sign
Books: Mr. William Oughtred's Key of the Mathematicks. Newly Translated from the Best Edition, with Notes, Rendring it Easy and Itelligible to Less Skilful Readers. In which Also, Some Problems Left Unanswer'd by the Author are Resolv'd . ..., Arithmeticae in numeris et speciebus institutio: quæ tum logisticæ, tum analyticæ, atque adeo totius mathematicæ, quasi clavis est, etc, The Solution of All Sphærical Triangles ... by the Planisphære. [By W. O., I.e. William Oughtred.] ... Published with Consent of the Author, by C. Brookes, and more