Richard Swineshead
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British mathematician and philosopher
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- Bachelors Mathematics University of Oxford
- Masters Mathematics University of Oxford
- PhD Mathematics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Swineshead was an English mathematician, logician, and natural philosopher. He was perhaps the greatest of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, where he was a fellow certainly by 1344 and possibly by 1340. His magnum opus was a series of treatises known as the Liber calculationum , written c. 1350, which earned him the nickname of The Calculator.
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