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Person: Recorde, Robert

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Recorde was a Welsh doctor and mathematician who invented the "equals" symbol '=' which appears in his book _The Whetstone of Witte _ (1557).

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 1510, Tenby, Wales. Died 1558, London, England.

View full biography at MacTutor

Origin Wales, Puzzles And Problems


Thank you to the contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0!

Github:
bookofproofs
non-Github:
@J-J-O'Connor
@E-F-Robertson


References

Adapted from other CC BY-SA 4.0 Sources:

  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive