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May 29, 2013 · Van Schooten was one of the main people to promote the spread of Cartesian geometry and this is a more important contribution than the results of his own researches. He printed the first Latin version of Descartes ' La géométrie Ⓣ ( Geometry ) in 1649 .
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Frans van Schooten was a Dutch mathematician who was one of...
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Van Schooten met Descartes in 1632 and read his Géométrie (an appendix to his Discours de la méthode) while it was still unpublished. Finding it hard to understand, he went to France to study the works of other important mathematicians of his time, such as François Viète and Pierre de Fermat.
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Dec 5, 2017 · To attract a sufficient number of students the quality and reputation of the teacher was very important. Professor Frans van Schooten Sr ., successor of Professor Ludolf van Ceulen , taught the course from 1611 to 1645. His elaborate lecture notes are preserved in the library of Leiden University.
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Franciscus van Schooten (1615 in Leiden – 29 May 1660 in Leiden) was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes. Life. Frans van Schooten. Van Schooten's father was a professor of mathematics at Leiden, having Christiaan Huygens, Johann van Waveren Hudde, and René de Sluze as students.
On p. 224, van Schooten shows how, given points A and B, to construct two line segments AG and BG that meet at a given angle. On page 327, van Schooten demonstrates the use of linkages to construct ellipses. On p. 533 is the final proposition in Huygens' Treatise on Reckoning in Games of Chance. This particular problem asks to determine the ...
Not all of van Schooten’s work was based on the works of others. Indeed, none of these three works, the tables, the collected works of Vieté, and the commentaries on Descartes, were very original, though they were quite important. However, between the first and second edition of the Descartes, van Schooten made his only foray into original work.
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.
