Mathematician:Nicolas Chuquet

French mathematician who first treated powers of unknowns systematically.

Inventor of the words billion for $10^{12}$, trillion for $10^{18}$, and so on.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 1445 or c. 1455, Paris, France
 * Died: 1488 or c. 1500, Lyon, France

Theorems and Definitions

 * Chuquet-Peletier System (with )

Books and Papers

 * 1484: Triparty en la Science des Nombres (unpublished in his lifetime)

Also see

 * : Chapter $4$: Lure of the Unknown