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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 .
- 29 mai 1660 (à 45 ans)Leyde
- Université de Leyde
- 15 mai 1615Leyde
Mathematics. 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 .
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May 29, 2013 · As well as being professor of mathematics, he was also the professor of Arabic. Van Schooten Junior had been taught by his father and had studied mathematics, French and Latin before he enrolled at the University of Leiden on 15 May 1631.
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.
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. Sources. John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Frans van Schooten": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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. 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.