biography
pronunciation:
[steviyn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1548–1620)
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| biography:
| Mathematician and engineer, born in Bruges, NW Belgium. He held offices under Prince Maurice of Orange, wrote on fortification, book-keeping and decimals, and invented a system of sluices to be used for defence by flooding certain areas, and a carriage propelled by sails. He was responsible for introducing the use of decimals, which were soon generally adopted. |
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