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Van Schooten's father, Frans van Schooten Senior was a professor of mathematics at the University of Leiden, having Christiaan Huygens, Johann van Waveren Hudde, and René de Sluze as students. Van Schooten met Descartes in 1632 and read his Géométrie (an appendix to his Discours de la méthode ) while it was still unpublished.
Frans van Schooten (1615-1660) : œuvres (24 ressources dans data.bnf.fr) Œuvres textuelles (23) "Renati Des Cartes Geometria" (1990) de René Descartes avec Frans van Schooten (1615-1660) comme Auteur du commentaire "Renati Des Cartes geometria" (1695) de René Descartes avec Frans van Schooten (1615-1660) comme Éditeur scientifique
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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.
Frans van Schooten (Leiden, 1615 - Leiden, 29 mei 1660) was een Nederlandse wiskundige, en hoogleraar in de wiskunde aan de Universiteit Leiden en decent aan de Leidse ingenieursschool. Frans van Schooten. Dutch mathematician (1615-1660) Upload media. Wikipedia.
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 ...
P REFACE TO EOMETRIA A R ENATO D A MSTERDAM, 1649) 1 Frans Van Schooten (1615-1660) PREFACE TO. GEOMETRIA A RENATO DESCARTES (AMSTERDAM, 1649) It is now twelve years, kind Reader, since that most noble and incomparable man, René Descartes, anonymously published his Geometry in French, together with certain others of his philosophical writings.
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.
