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Simon Stevin
Sign in to saveFlemish mathematician, physicist and engineer (1548–1620)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1548
- Died
- 1620
- Works
- 6
Top works
- La castrametation
- De beghinselen des waterwichts
- De weeghdaet
- Van de last en waerdigheyt eenes ambassadevrs
- Ancient double-entry bookkeeping
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,603x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,812x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,691x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 33,813x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 31,534x
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Quotes
- “[The books of Euclid pass on to us] something admirable and very necessary to see and to read, namely the order in the method of writing on mathematics in that aforementioned time of the wise age.”
- “The second Definition. Number is that which expresseth the quantitie of each thing.”
- “The sixt Definition. A Whole number is either a unitie, or a compounded multitude of unities.”
- “The seventh Definition. The Golden Rule, or Rule of three, is that by which to three tearmes given, the fourth proportionall tearme is found.”
- “Multiplication of whole Numbers ...Note, that for the more easie solution of this proposition, it were necessary to have in memory the multiplication of the 9 simple Characters among themselves, learning them by rote out of the Table here placed...”
- “The Rule of Three, or Golden Rule of Arithmeticall whole Numbers. Be the three termes given 2 3 4. ...To finde their fourth proporcionall Terme: that is to say, in such Reason to the third terme 4, as the second terme 3, is to the first terme 2 [Modern notation: \frac{x}{4} = \frac{3}{2}]. ...Multiply the second terme 3, by the third terme 4, & giveth the product 12: which dividing by the first terme 2, giveth the Quotient 6: I say that 6 is the fourth proportional terme required.”
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Key facts
- Born
- 1548, Bruges, Habsburg Netherlands
- Died
- 1620 (aged 71 – 72), The Hague?
- Alma mater
- Leiden University
- Occupations
- Mathematician scientist music theorist
- Known for
- Decimal fractions , Delft tower experiment , Intermediate value theorem , Stevin's law
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- Simon Stevin
- date of birth
- 1548-00-00
- name in native language
- Simon Stevin
- date of death
- 1620-00-00
- Commons Creator page
- Simon Stevin
- P8168
- Of Mice and Men
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Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Simon Stevin, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Simon Stevin ( Dutch: [ˈsimɔn steːˈvɪn]; 1548–1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist. He made various contributions in many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. He also translated various mathematical terms into Dutch, making it one of the few European languages in which the word for mathematics, wiskunde (wis and kunde, i.e., "the knowledge of what is certain"), was not a loanword from Greek but a calque via Latin. He also replaced the word chemie, the Dutch for chemistry, by scheikunde ("the art of separating"), made in analogy with wiskunde.
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