William Morgan: Eighteenth-Century Actuary, Mathematician and Radical

ISBN-13: 9781786836182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

Nicola Bennetts

Opis

This biography explains William Morgan's role in developing the mathematics that underpin the money management of pension funds. It focuses also on the experiment in which Morgan created an X-ray tube, and examines his outspoken political views and turbulent private life.