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Title: 3 Famous Mathematicians


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3 Famous Mathematicians
  • By Tiffany Setters

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Al-Kindi
  • He was born in 803 and died in 873
  • He lived in Iraq

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Al-Kindi
  • He was called Alkindus in the West
  • He cannot be considered among the greatest of
    mathematicians, but was one of the most
    influential general scientists between Aristotle
    and Da Vinci.

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Al-Kindi
  • He wrote on diverse subjects, physics, astronomy,
    music, psychology, medicine, chemistry, and more.
  • He invented pharmaceutical methods and perfumes.

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Al-Kindi
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Simon Stevin
  • He was born in 1549 and died in 1620
  • He lived in Flanders, Holland

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Simon Stevin
  • He was one of the greatest practical scientists
    of the Late Middle Ages.
  • He worked with Holland's dykes and windmills and
    was a military engineer

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Simon Stevin
  • He introduced decimal fractions to Europe and
    suggested a decimal metric system which was
    adopted 200 years later
  • He is best known for the notion of real numbers

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Simon Stevin
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Dorothy Stone
  • She was born in 1917
  • She lived in Parkersburg, West Virginia

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Dorothy Stone
  • Through her research and other activities, she
    earned a worldwide reputation as a truly
    outstanding mathematician.
  • She made important contributions to measure theory

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Dorothy Stone
  • Her husband, Arthur Harold Stone was a British
    Mathematician
  • Later on, her son and daughter became
    mathematicians also.

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Dorothy Stone
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Dorothy Stone husband and kids
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