Peter Barlow (1776 to 1862) was an English mathematician and physicist who spent most of his working life as a teacher of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. In 1814 he published New Mathematical Tables, which became known as Barlow's Tables. They give the squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots and reciprocals of all whole numbers from 1 to 10,000, and they were reprinted regularly until 1965, when computers made them obsolete. He also wrote on the theory of numbers and compiled a mathematical and philosophical dictionary. Outside computation he built an achromatic lens, studied terrestrial magnetism and the correction of ship compass deviation, for which the Royal Society gave him its Copley Medal, and advised on bridges and railways.
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Peter Barlow (13 October 1776-1 March 1862) was an English mathematician and physicist.
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The latter became known as Barlow's Tables and gives squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots, and reciprocals of all integer numbers from 1 to 10,000.
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In 1823, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society.
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Two years later, he received its Copley Medal
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was an English mathematician and physicist
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The latter became known as Barlow's Tables and gives squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots, and reciprocals of all integer numbers from 1 to 10,000.
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The latter became known as Barlow's Tables and gives squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots, and reciprocals of all integer numbers from 1 to 10,000.
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