Nationality French Name Genevieve Guitel | Occupation Mathematician Role Mathematician | |
Born May 24, 1895 ( 1895-05-24 ) Died July 30, 1982, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | ||
Genevieve Guitel was a French mathematician. She is mostly remembered for the introduction of the terms echelle longue and echelle courte (long scale and short scale) to refer to two of the main numbering systems used around the world.
She was appointed as mathematics teacher in 1920 and taught at the Lycee Moliere in Paris. She published mathematical papers over at least the period 1943–1979.
Publications
Her publications include Histoire comparee des numerations ecrites, where on p. 51–52 and in the chapter "Les grands nombres en numeration parlee", p. 566–574, (English: The large numbers in oral numeration), she made the first recorded use of the terms echelle longue and echelle courte.
Histoire comparee des numerations ecrites, Genevieve Guitel, Ed. Flammarion, Paris, 1975 ISBN 9782082111041 (French)References
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