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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.
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.
Simon Stevin was a Dutch language academic journal in pure and applied mathematics, or Wiskunde as the field is known in Dutch. Published in Ghent, edited by Guy Hirsch, it ran for 67 volumes until 1993. [1] The journal is named after Simon Stevin (1548–1620), a Flemish mathematician and engineer.
"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 Act of Weighing"), De Beghinselen des Waterwichts ("The Principles of Hydrostatics") and an Anhang (an appendix ). [ 1 ]
Simon Stevin is credited with introducing the decimal system into general use in Europe. [5] In 1586, he published a small pamphlet called De Thiende ("the tenth") which historians credit as being the basis of modern notation for decimal fractions. [6]
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 ...
1934: The Gelfond–Schneider theorem, in mathematics, establishes the transcendence of a large class of numbers. It was originally proved in 1934 by Aleksandr Gelfond, and again independently in 1935 by Theodor Schneider. 1934: The Penrose triangle, also known as the "tribar", is an impossible object.
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.