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Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 – 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astrologer from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands who was active throughout Central Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Sep 29, 2011 · Adriaan van Roomen or Adrianus Romanus was a Flemish mathematician who calculated π to 16 decimal places using Archimedes' method.
Apr 18, 2009 · Adriaan van Roomen published an outline of what he called a Mathesis Universalis in 1597. This earned him a well-deserved place in the history of early modern ideas about a universal mathematics which was intended to encompass both geometry and arithmetic and to provide general rules valid for operations involving numbers, geometrical ...
- Paul Bockstaele
- 2009
Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 – 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astrologer from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands who was active throughout Central Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
"In 1593 the Dutch mathematician Adrianus Romanus proposed to all the mathematicians the problem of solving a certain equation of degree 45. The ambassador of the Netherlands at the court of the French king Henri IV claimed that nobody in France would be able to solve this problem" [10, p.
ROMANUS's letter also indicates that CLAVIUS had informed him on the calculations of the trigonometrie tables in progress in Rome by GRIENBER GER. In the course of the next two years, 1597 and 1598, ROMANUS returned to this subject repeatedly in letters to CLAVIUS and GRIENBERGER.18 He
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In the course of the sixteenth century, several mathematicians assiduously embarked on the calculation of trigonometric tables. Some, like Georg Joachim Rheticus,1 were ultimately successful; others, like Adrianus Romanus 2 and Christoph Grienberger,3...
