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Fibonacci - ✔✔Came up with a numerical series where each number is the sum of the
preceding two numbers in the sequence
Robert Recorde - ✔✔a Welsh mathematician who introduced the symbol for the equals
sign in the 1500s
Michael Stifel - ✔✔First to use plus and minus signs and developed a system of
logarithms
Nicolas Cusa - ✔✔Roman Catholic prelate and philosopher who focused on mystical
philosophy. He anticipated Copernicus by his belief in the earth's rotation and
revolution around the sun.
Johann Muller - ✔✔Wrote the first systematic treatment of trigonometry separate from
astronomy in Europe De traingulis omnimodis
Nicolas Chuquet - ✔✔He invented his own notation for algebraic concepts and
exponentiation. He may have been the first mathematician to recognize zero and
negative numbers as exponents
Loca Pacioli - ✔✔Wrote Summa de arithmetica, geometrica, proprotioni et
proportionalita, a compilation of all arithmetic, algebra and geometry of the time, used
a fully syncopated algebra
Tartaglia - ✔✔Played a part in the solution to cubics
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