The English mathematician Alan Turing may have been the first.

英国数学家阿兰·图灵可能是第一个。

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William Oughtred, English mathematician who invented the slide rule in 1622, died at Albury in Surrey.

1622年发明计算尺的英国数学家威廉·奥特雷德在萨里郡奥尔伯里逝世。

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George Boole was an English mathematician who helped establish the field of mathematics called symbolic logic.

乔治·布尔是一名曾帮助建立数学邻域中逻辑符号的英国数学家。

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Lewis Fry Richardson, an English meteorologist and mathematician, was ridiculed for his suggestion in 1922 that it might be possible to predict the weather using an army of thousands of mathematicians, sitting at desks in a vast arena and passing slips of paper to each other.

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It is that as a mathematician he discovered - alone and unaided - the binomial theory usually attributed to a famous English scholar called Isaac Newton.

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