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Richard Swineshead

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British mathematician and philosopher

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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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