Astronomy & Mathematics

 Thomas Fuller

(1710 – December 1790)

Enslaved American Mathematician

 

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Appiah, Anthony. n.d. Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.
Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, p.732.

Account of a wonderful talent for arithmetical calculation, in an African slave, living in Virginia. The American Museum: Or,
Repository of Ancient and Modern  Fugitve Pieces, etc. Prose and Poetical. Vol. 5 (1789), p. 62-63.

Curtis, James C., and Lewis L. Gould. 1970. The Black Experience in America; Selected Essays.
Austin: University of Texas Press.

Gerdes, Paulus, and Ahmed Djebbar. 2011. History of Mathematics in Africa: AMUCHMA 25 years.
Morrisville, NC: Lulu Enterprises, p.168.

Joseph, George Gheverghese. 2011. The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots Of Mathematics.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.

“A Negro History Compendium,” Black World/Negro Digest Feb 1972, pgs. 88-91 (p.89.)

“Thomas Fuller: African slave and mathematician 1710-1790,” University of Buffalo Mathematicians of the African Diaspora.

Thomas Fuller, “the Virginia Calculator”,” The Friends of Freedmen’s Cemetery

“A wizard in any age” Christian Science Monitor, February 12, 1980.

 Thomas Fuller (mental calculator) – Wikipedia

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Hip Hop Math – Thomas Fuller – [Min: 1:59]

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