Simon Stevin (1548 to 1620) was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist, and for computing he matters as the author of De Thiende, a 35-page booklet of 1585 that introduced decimal fractions to Europe and showed how to calculate with them. He also published tables of interest in 1582 and a uniform treatment of algebraic equations in 1585. He enrolled at Leiden University in 1583, served as personal advisor to Maurice, Prince of Orange, and devised the curriculum of the Engineering School there. His decimals later inspired Isaac Newton's work on infinite series. Earlier decimal fractions were known to Islamic mathematicians, and the article records that debate.
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was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist
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1548-1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician
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was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist
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De Thiende (La Disme, The tenth) in 1585 in which decimals were introduced in Europe
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De Thiende (La Disme, The tenth) in 1585 in which decimals were introduced in Europe
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at Leiden University, which had been founded by William the Silent in 1575.
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Simon Stevin was a Flemish mathematician who presented the first elementary and thorough account of decimal fractions
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