Though known as a nurse who changed the standard of health care, she was actually a brilliant mathematician, and the inventor of a class of chart called the polar area diagram.
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Thursday, November 03, 2011
Florence Nightingale a Mathematician?
Yes, and inventor of a class of graphs. That's from this interesting site, which says:
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