Hutton, CHARLES, mathematician, son of a superintendent of mines, was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 14th August 1737; from 1755 to 1773 was a teacher at Jesmond and Newcastle, and published works on arithmetic (1764), mensuration (1771), and bridges (1772). In 1773 he was made professor of Mathematics at the Military Academy, Woolwich, and in 1774 became F.R.S. His calculations for determining the density of the earth from Maskelyne's observations were published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1778. He resigned the professorship in 1807; and he died 27th January 1823.
Hutton's most important works are Tables of Products and Powers of Numbers (1781), Mathematical Tables (1785), Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary (1795), Course of Mathematics (1798–1801), and Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (4 vols. 1803—largely from the French).