Seeking a Language in Mathematics 1523-1571 Cuthbert Tunstall, later Bishop of London and then Durham, published the first book on mathematics conceived and printed in England in 1523; it was a commercial arithmetic written in Latin. By the time of Thomas Digges's publication of his book on geometry in 1571, the use of English in mathematical publications and the practical arts' had become established, but not entirely to the exclusion of Latin. There is a parallel, which may be aetiological,...