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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 .
May 29, 2013 · Frans van Schooten was a Dutch mathematician who was one of the main people to promote the spread of Cartesian geometry.
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In 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.
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. 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.
His full Latinized name was Franciscus van Schooten. His name can also be written Frans van Schoten or Frans Verschooten . Some sources refer to him as the Younger , or Junior , acknowledging the existence of his father (a professor of mathematics) with the same name.
