Oughtred, William
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Oughtred, William
English mathematician, credited as the inventor of the slide rule in 1622. His major work Clavis mathematicae/The Key to Mathematics (1631) was a survey of the entire body of mathematical knowledge of his day. It introduced the ‘×’ symbol for multiplication, as well as the abbreviations ‘sin’ for sine and ‘cos’ for cosine.
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