| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Harriot, Thomas |
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(hâr´  t) (KEY) , 1560–1621, English mathematician and astronomer. He was tutor to Sir Walter Raleigh, who sent him in 1585 to Virginia as surveyor with Sir Richard Grenville. Returning to England, Harriot wrote A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588), one of the earliest known large-scale statistical surveys. He made valuable contributions to algebra, introducing new symbols and notation. His Artis analyticae praxis appeared in 1631. | 1 | | See biography by M. Rukeyser (1971). | 2 |
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