Nicholas Pike was born in New Hampshire in the Thirteen Colonies in 1743 and died in 1819, and was one of the first American-born mathematicians to dedicate a book to mathematics. He graduated from Harvard University in 1766 and took his master's degree in 1769, and served as a public and private teacher, a selectman and a justice of the peace, though he was a mathematician above all. His textbook, A New and Complete System of Arithmetic Composed for Use of Citizens of the United States, published in 1788, ranged from addition and multiplication to compound interest on loans and became one of the first mathematical textbooks used by American schools, which had relied on books written in England.
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Nicholas Pike (1743–1819) was born in New Hampshire in the Thirteen Colonies.
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Nicholas Pike (1743-1819) was born in New Hampshire in the Thirteen Colonies.
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He was one of the first American-born mathematicians to dedicate a book to mathematics.
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The book was called A New and Complete System of Arithmetic Composed for Use of Citizens of the United States (1788).
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