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Benjamin Wardhaugh is a historian; he does research and teaches at the University of Oxford, where since October 2007 he has been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College. He is a graduate of Cambridge, Oxford, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and holds degrees in mathematics, music, and history. (A CV can be found here.)
His current research is on the social history of mathematics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England: who used mathematics, and how? where did they learn it? how was it portrayed in fiction and theatre? He is working on a popular account of some of these questions, Poor Robin's Prophecies: The Life and Times of a Georgian Astrologer. He also works on mathematical theories of music from the same period. His book, Music, Experiment and Mathematics presents the results of that research (for the book's errata follow this link), and he is involved in a series of editions of music-theory texts from early modern England; including the musical writings of John Birchensha, which appeared in 2009. He teaches the history of mathematics in various periods, in both the Mathematical Institute and the History Faculty at Oxford. A selection of the many things he has learned from his students appears in his textbook, How to Read Historical Mathematics ('Anyone interested in the history of mathematics should start here' — Choice). His other interests include playing the bassoon, both in chamber groups and amateur orchestras, composing and arranging, and photography. He lives in Oxford with his wife, Jessica, who is also a historian, and his son William. He can be contacted at: enquiries at benjaminwardhaugh.co.uk
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