Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

Born: 4 Dec 1795 in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Died: 5 Feb 1881 in London, England

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Thomas Carlyle is best known as an writer. He studied at Edinburgh University and in 1814 he obtained a mathematics teaching post at Annan. In 1816 he went to another school at Kirkcaldy, again as a mathematics teacher.

Carlyle is famed for his English translation of Legendre's Éléments de géométrie . This translation ran to 33 editions. Unhappy with teaching he returned to Edinburgh University to study law in 1819. From the 1820's he turned to history and literature for which he is famed. He became rector of Edinburgh University in 1865.

References:

  1. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. I Campbell, Thomas Carlyle (1974).
  3. F Kaplan, Thomas Carlyle (1983). 
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