Nicolas Chuquet was a French mathematician. 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.
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Academics born in the 1440s 6
About this person
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1445 to 1488 · aged 43
Written about in
17 languages
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