George Darley (1795 to 1846) was an Irish poet, novelist and literary critic who also wrote mathematical textbooks. Born in Dublin into a prominent family related by marriage to the Guinnesses, he took a BA in mathematics and classics at Trinity College Dublin in 1820 and moved to London in 1821 to pursue a literary career. He supported himself partly as a critic for the Athenaeum and partly by writing several mathematical texts for John Taylor's Darley's Scientific Library, among them A System of Popular Algebra, A System of Popular Geometry, A System of Popular Trigonometry, The Geometrical Companion and Familiar Astronomy. His poetry, including Nepenthe, won the regard of friends such as Charles Lamb and Thomas Carlyle, but he fell into depression and died in London in 1846.
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A System of Popular Trigonometry (John Taylor, London, 1827).
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