Estimating Everest – letter to The Times

Sir, Patrick Kidd (TMS, Mar 13) wonders if in the present climate of name changing there will be moves to rename Everest. More useful would be for people to know who actually calculated the height of the world’s highest mountain. It was not George Everest but Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician who worked under Everest, […]
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