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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