Robert Baldwin Hayward
1829–1903
Mathematician and schoolteacher. BA, Cambridge (St John’s College), 1850; fellow of St John’s, 1852–60; assistant tutor, 1852–5. Mathematical tutor and reader in natural philosophy, Durham University, 1855–9. Mathematics master, Harrow School, 1859–93. Produced research papers in applied mathematics and mathematical methods. Advocated reform in mathematical education through the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching; wrote textbooks on geometry and trigonometry. FRS 1876.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
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Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
