سیمون استیون

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5 total works indexed

1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

   · 2014 · cited 85,603x

2. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

   · 2003 · cited 51,812x

3. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 41,691x

4. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

   · 2018 · cited 33,813x

5. Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis

   · 2002 · cited 31,534x

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Quotes

• “[The books of Euclid pass on to us] something admirable and very necessary to see and to read, namely the order in the method of writing on mathematics in that aforementioned time of the wise age.”
• “The second Definition. Number is that which expresseth the quantitie of each thing.”
• “The sixt Definition. A Whole number is either a unitie, or a compounded multitude of unities.”
• “The seventh Definition. The Golden Rule, or Rule of three, is that by which to three tearmes given, the fourth proportionall tearme is found.”
• “Multiplication of whole Numbers ...Note, that for the more easie solution of this proposition, it were necessary to have in memory the multiplication of the 9 simple Characters among themselves, learning them by rote out of the Table here placed...”
• “The Rule of Three, or Golden Rule of Arithmeticall whole Numbers. Be the three termes given 2 3 4. ...To finde their fourth proporcionall Terme: that is to say, in such Reason to the third terme 4, as the second terme 3, is to the first terme 2 [Modern notation: \frac{x}{4} = \frac{3}{2}]. ...Multiply the second terme 3, by the third terme 4, & giveth the product 12: which dividing by the first terme 2, giveth the Quotient 6: I say that 6 is the fourth proportional terme required.”

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Key facts

Born

1548, Bruges, Habsburg Netherlands

Died

1620 (aged 71 – 72), The Hague?

Alma mater

Leiden University

Occupations

Mathematician scientist music theorist

Known for

Decimal fractions , Delft tower experiment , Intermediate value theorem , Stevin's law

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