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Frans van Schooten Jr. also rendered as Franciscus van Schooten (15 May 1615, Leiden – 29 May 1660, Leiden) was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes .
May 29, 2013 · Born. 15 May 1615. Leiden, Netherlands. Died. 29 May 1660. Leiden, Netherlands. Summary. Frans van Schooten was a Dutch mathematician who was one of the main people to promote the spread of Cartesian geometry. View three larger pictures.
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1661: Further expansion of the commentaries on La Géométrie by René Descartes (with Johannes van Waveren Hudde, Johan de Witt and Hendrik van Heuraet): Volume 2; Also known as. His full Latinized name was Franciscus van Schooten. His name can also be written Frans van Schoten or Frans Verschooten.
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.
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 .
Frans van Schooten jr. (1615-1660) was one of the most influential Dutch mathematicians of the seventeenth century. He is best known for his two Latin editions (1649, 1659-61) of the Géométrie (1637) of Descartes, which originally appeared in French as an appendix to the Discours de la Methode.
Schooten maintained a wide correspondence, especially with Descartes. First in Paris and then in London (1641-3) he made the acquaintance of mathematical circles, with which he maintained a correspondence that is now lost. Sources. J.E. Hofmann, "Frans van Schooten der Jüngere," Boethius, 2 (1962). Nieuw Nederlandsch Biographisch Woordenboek.
