Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Stanley, Anthony Dumond

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612763Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography — Stanley, Anthony Dumond

STANLEY, Anthony Dumond, mathematician, b. in East Hartford, Conn., 2 April, 1810; d. there, 16 March, 1853. He was graduated at Yale in 1830, was appointed tutor in 1832, and professor of mathematics in the same institution in 1836, which office he held until his death. He published an “Elementary Treatise of Spherical Geometry and Trigonometry” (New Haven, 1848), and “Tables of Logarithms of Numbers, and of Logarithmic Sines, Tangents, and Secants to Seven Places of Decimals, together with Other Tables” (1849). He also edited an edition of “Day's Algebra,” assisted in the revision of “Webster's Quarto Dictionary” (1847), and left several unfinished works in manuscript.