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Hutton (CHARLES an English)

CHARLES, an English mathematician; born in Newcastle-upon- Tyne, England, Aug. 14, 1737. He was the son of a superintendent of mines, and in 1755-1773 was a school teacher at Jesmond and Newcastle. In 1773 he was appointed to the professorship of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in 1774 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was selected to perform the necessary calculations for determining the density of the earth, and his report was published in the "Philosophical Transactions" for 1778. He resigned the professorship in 1807. He wrote: "Tables of Products HUTTON HUY and Powers of Numbers" (1781); In 1846-1850 he sailed around the world "Mathematical Tables" (1785); "Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary" (1795); "Course of Mathematics" (1798– 1801); "Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy" (1803); etc. Besides these, he contributed mathematical papers to the "Philosophical Transactions." He died Jan. 27, 1823.