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    François Viète (French: [fʁɑ̃swa vjɛt]; 1540 – 23 February 1603), known in Latin as Franciscus Vieta, was a French mathematician whose work on new algebra...
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    polynomial to sums and products of its roots. They are named after François Viète (more commonly referred to by the Latinised form of his name, "Franciscus...
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    that has Viète's formula as a special case. Many similar formulas involving nested roots or infinite products are now known. François Viète (1540–1603)...
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  • his main treatise. Algebra became an area in its own right only with François Viète (1540–1603), who introduced the use of variables for representing unknown...
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  • mass–energy equivalence. Mathematical notation was first introduced by François Viète at the end of the 16th century and largely expanded during the 17th...
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    especially optics, and mathematics. He was one of the few students of François Viète and friend of Giovanni Camillo Glorioso. Born into the Ghetaldi noble...
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  • to estimate π to 11 digits around 1400. In 1593, François Viète published what is now known as Viète's formula, an infinite product (rather than an infinite...
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  • Vieta may refer to: François Viète (1540–1603), commonly known by the Latin form of his name Franciscus Vieta, a French mathematician Vieta (crater), a...
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    hired François Viète, her former mathematics tutor, as her daughter's tutor. Viète co-founded modern algebra. Her mother was his patron. Viète taught...
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    obtained from polygons with fewer sides. Viète's formula, published by François Viète in 1593, was derived by Viète using a closely related polygonal method...
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    study the works of other important mathematicians of his time, such as François Viète and Pierre de Fermat. Frans van Schooten returned home to Leiden in...
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  • Program. Nantes University has a dedicated Department called Centre François Viète. Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) has a Department of History and...
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  • introduced by Frans van Schooten in 1646 as he edited the works of François Viète (who had himself not used this notation). However, earlier versions...
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    solution does not use only straightedge and compass constructions. François Viète found such a solution by exploiting limiting cases: any of the three...
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  • quartic term). 16th century: François Viète discovers Vieta's formulas. 16th century: François Viète discovers Viète's formula for π.1500: Scipione del...
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  • medicine at Louvain from 1586 to 1592. He met Kepler, and discussed with François Viète two questions about equations and tangencies. He then spent some time...
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  • equations. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the French mathematicians François Viète and René Descartes introduced letters and symbols to denote variables...
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    is therefore often considered as the discoverer of complex numbers. François Viète (1540–1603) independently derived the trigonometric solution for the...
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  • Ramanujan–Sato series Rhind Mathematical Papyrus Salamin–Brent algorithm Software for calculating π Squaring the circle Turn (geometry) Viète's formula...
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    Mathematical Sciences. 22 (2): 64–85. doi:10.35834/mjms/1312233136. Viète, François (1579). Canon mathematicus seu ad triangula : cum adpendicibus (in...
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  • received a good classical education, learning mathematics from François Viète. François was her legal advisor, personal secretary, and tutor to Antoinette...
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    Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks...
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  • al-Qalasadi (15th century), although fully symbolic algebra was developed by François Viète (16th century). Later, René Descartes (17th century) introduced the...
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    interests with Fermat. There he became much influenced by the work of François Viète. In 1630, he bought the office of a councilor at the Parlement de Toulouse...
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    Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks...
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  • This had previously been given by François Viète for positive roots, and is today called Viète's formulas, but Viète did not give these for general roots...
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  • Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks...
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  • 1675) Blaise Francois Pagan, French military engineer (died 1665) Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (died 1659) February 23 – François Viète, French mathematician...
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  • \&=77480130^{3}-77428260^{3}\end{aligned}}} Cabtaxi(2) was known to François Viète and Pietro Bongo in the late 16th century in the equivalent form 3 3...
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    Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William Jones John Machin William Shanks...
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