Mathematician:Simon Stevin

Flemish mathematician, engineer and writer most famous for inventing the decimal notation for the rendering of fractions.

Wrote most of his work in Dutch, believing it the best language for communication of scientific and mathematical ideas.

Nationality
Flemish

History

 * Born: 1548, Bruges, Flanders (now Belgium)
 * Died: 1620

Books and Papers

 * 1582: Tafelen van Interest ("Tables of interest")
 * 1583: Problemata geometrica
 * 1585: De Thiende ("The tenth") in which decimals were introduced into Europe
 * 1585: La pratique d'arithmétique
 * 1585: L'arithmétique in which he presented a uniform treatment for solving algebraic equations

Also see

 * : Chapter $3$: Notations and Numbers