Which Persian mathematician advanced decimal fractions in the 15th century?
AJamshid al-Kashi
BImmanuel Bonfils
CAl-Khwarizmi
DJohn Napier
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Jamshid al-Kashi
1. The 15th century work The Key to Arithmetic treated decimal fractions systematically.
2. Its author was the Persian mathematician Jamshid al-Kashi.
3. Bonfils used decimals around 1350 without notation, Al-Uqlidisi was 10th century, and Napier was later.
_Source: Wikipedia, Decimal, section History of decimal fractions_
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