| Pioneer | Journal where reappraisal appeared | Title | Link to article containing reappraisal |
| Simon Stevin | Foundations of Science | "Stevin numbers and reality" | 12c |
Simon Stevin (1548-1620) was a Dutch engineer, mathematician, and
physicist. He pioneered the use of unending decimals to represent
arbitrary numbers.
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