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Autres informations. Frans van Schooten ( [sko:t'n]), latinisé en Franciscus a Schooten (né en 1615 à Leyde – mort le 29 mai 1660 à Leyde ), mathématicien néerlandais, fut l'éditeur des œuvres de François Viète et le premier promoteur de la géométrie algébrique de René Descartes .
AFFICHER TOUTES LES QUESTIONS. Frans van Schooten ( [sko:t'n]), latinisé en Franciscus a Schooten (né en 1615 à Leyde – mort le 29 mai 1660 à Leyde ), mathématicien néerlandais, fut l'éditeur des œuvres de François Viète et le premier promoteur de la géométrie algébrique de René Descartes. Frans van Schooten.
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May 29, 2013 · Frans van Schooten Senior was born in 1581 in Nieuwkerke in West Flanders, but when he was two years old his father (the grandfather of the subject of this biography), who was a baker, fled to avoid the advancing Spanish troops. The family were Protestants and so feared for their lives both from the Catholic troops and from the Inquisition.
Frans van Schooten. 1615-1660. Dutch mathematician who translated and published René Descartes' Géométrie into Latin and trained a large number of students to give an algebraic treatment of geometry in the Cartesian style, including Jan de Witt and Christiaan Huygens. Van Schooten disseminated the work of these students as appendices to his ...
Feb 24, 2023 · Frans van Schooten Jr. (1615-1660) was a Dutch mathematician known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes. He was instrumental in making Descartes' work comprehensible to the broader mathematical community and expanding it through commentaries, making Leiden the center of the mathematical community for a short period in the middle of the seventeenth century.
Other articles where Frans van Schooten is discussed: mathematics: Analytic geometry: …became established in Leiden around Frans van Schooten, a Dutch mathematician who edited and published in 1649 a Latin translation of La Géométrie. Van Schooten published a second two-volume translation of the same work in 1659–1661 that also contained mathematical appendixes by three of his disciples ...
