Thomas Fuller (mental calculator)

Thomas Fuller
Bornc. 1710
African continent (around present-day Liberia and Benin)
DiedDecember 1790 (1791-01) (aged 80)

Thomas Fuller (1710 – December 1790), also known as "Negro Demus" and the "Virginia Calculator", was an enslaved African renowned for his mathematical abilities.[1]

  1. ^ Rouse Ball, W.W. (1960) Calculating Prodigies, in Mathematical Recreations and Essays, Macmillan, New York, chapter 13.