Basic Slide Rule Instructions - How to use a slide rule. An Eclectic Oxonian View - An essay by Jonathan Bowen. History of mathematics. The Coggeshall Slide Rule - History of this unusual 1600s slide rule. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics - Shows who coined a wide variety of mathematical terms, or in some cases only the earliest known use of the word.
Research is ongoing and the pages are frequently updated.
Edwin Thacher's 1881 Slide Rule Patent - Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 249117, dated November 1, 1881. By David A.R. Wallace, Glasgow. Ethnomathematics Bibliography - A bibliography of potentially useful references. Fields Medals and Rolf Nevanlinna Prize - Awarded in recognition of both existing mathematical work and the promise of future achievement. Hilbert's Problems - Article in the Platonic Realms.