Peter Turner

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Peter Turner
Peter Turner (1586-1652)
Peter Turner (1586-1652)
Born 1586
London, England
Died Jan 1652
London, England
Residence Flag of England England
Nationality Flag of England English
Fields Mathematician
Institutions Gresham College
University of Oxford
Alma mater University of Oxford

Peter Turner was an English mathematician. He gave public lectures as professor of geometry at Gresham College, London from 1620 to 1630. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1631 to 1649.

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Savilian Professors of Geometry

Henry Briggs (1619) · Peter Turner (1631) · John Wallis (1649) · David Gregory (1691) · Edmond Halley (1704) · Nathaniel Bliss (1742) · Joseph Betts (1765) · John Smith (1766) · Abraham Robertson (1797) · Stephen Peter Rigaud (1810) · Baden Powell (1827) · Henry John Stephen Smith (1861) · James Joseph Sylvester (1883) · William Esson (1897) · Godfrey Harold Hardy (1920) · Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1932) · Michael Atiyah (1963) · Ioan James (1969) · Richard Taylor (1995) · Nigel Hitchin (1997)
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