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Simon Stevin (Dutch: [ˈsimɔn steːˈvɪn]; 1548–1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist. [1] He made various contributions in many areas of science and engineering , both theoretical and practical.
Frontpage of De Beghinselen der Weeghconst by Simon Stevin, 1586. De Beghinselen der Weeghconst (lit. "The Principles of the Art of Weighing") is a book about statics written by the Flemish physicist Simon Stevin in Dutch. It was published in 1586 in a single volume with De Weeghdaet (lit.
The most influential of these was Simon Stevin, a Flemish mathematician and engineer who popularized the system in a booklet called De Thiende ("The tenth"), first published in 1585. By extending place value to tenths, hundredths, and so on, Stevin created the system we still use today.
The earliest surviving ready reckoner in English dates from the 1570s; [2] other sources attribute the invention to the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin, who calculated and published decimal tables in the 1580s. [3] William Webster published A plaine and most necessarie booke of tables, for simple and compound interest, in 1625. [4]
Simon Stevin in his 1608 De spiegheling der Ebbenvloet (The Theory of Ebb and Flood) dismisses a large number of misconceptions that still existed about ebb and flood. Stevin pleads for the idea that the attraction of the Moon was responsible for the tides and writes in clear terms about ebb, flood, spring tide and neap tide, stressing that ...
Simon Stevin 3 (1996), no. 4, 467–475. Robert, Alain: Nonstandard analysis. Translated from the French by the author. A Wiley-Interscience Publication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1988. This book was cited 80 times at Google Scholar in 2012. Robert, Alain M.: Linear Algebra: Examples and Applications.
Simon Stevin's book De Thiende ("The Art of Tenths"), published in Dutch in 1585, contained a systematic treatment of decimal notation, which influenced all later work on the real number system. The new algebra (1591) of François Viète introduced the modern notational manipulation of algebraic expressions.
One of the European scientists to embrace the new view of physics was Simon Stevin, a Flemish engineer and mathematician. Stevin was employed as a military adviser for the court of William the Silent, and as such resided in the city of Delft while William's government occupied the city; [2] one of Stevin's main benefactors was Maurice, Prince ...