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Robert Recorde , Sixteenth-century inventor of the Equals Sign was from Tenby . As it has been suggested, " equals sign was an invention that, while slow in becoming universally adopted, is still perhaps the most fundamental thing ever invented by a person from Wales" ([http://www.100welshheroes.com/en/biography/robertrecorde ).

William Jones , born in Anglesey in 1675 , was the first recorded mathematician to use the symbol Pi in its present form in 1706 , though it would not achieve widespread adoption until used by famed Swiss mathematician Euler .

Bertrand Russell , perhaps the most influential British Thinker of the Twentieth Century , though more properly a Philosopher than a mathematician, was of English descent but born in Monmouthshire .

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Chambers, Ll. G. ''Mathemategwyr Cymru'' (Welsh Mathematicians), Cyd Bwyllgor Addysg Cymru, 1994.

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Welsh scientists Mathematicians, Scientists and Inventors