Wren's Problem

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THE mathematical abilities of Christopher Wren, whom Oughtred praised in his Clavis,md Newton numbered with Wallis and Huygens among the outstanding geometers of the age, have been admired by all subsequent historians of mathematics; but it has always been difficult to find examples of what Wren actually did. The fullest and most laudatory account of Wren as a scientist was written by Thomas Sprat in his History of the Royal Society (1667) but even Sprat—at a time when W ren’s work as an architect was barely begun—listed no instance of his idol’s achievement in mathematics.

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