Frans van Schooten Jr. also rendered as Franciscus van Schooten (15 May 1615 – 29 May 1660) was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing...
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Van Schooten's theorem, named after the Dutch mathematician Frans van Schooten, describes a property of equilateral triangles. It states: For an equilateral...
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Joris van Schooten (1587–1651) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and the uncle of the Leiden mathematician Frans van Schooten. According to Houbraken he was...
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games of chance and the problem of points in Van Rekeningh in Spelen van Gluck, which Frans van Schooten translated and published as De Ratiociniis in...
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François Viète (section The Adriaan van Roomen problem)
have received. In 1648, the corpus of mathematical works printed by Frans van Schooten, professor at Leiden University (Elzevirs presses). He was assisted...
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Johannes Hudde (redirect from Johan van Waveren Hudde)
mathematics under the influence of his teacher Frans van Schooten. From 1654 to 1663 he worked under van Schooten. La Géométrie (1637) by René Descartes provided...
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Descartes was interviewed by Frans Burman at Egmond-Binnen in 1648. Henricus Regius, Jan Stampioen, Frans van Schooten, Comenius and Gisbertus Voetius...
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after Descartes' La Géométrie was translated into Latin in 1649 by Frans van Schooten and his students. These commentators introduced several concepts while...
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From 1653 he studied at Leiden University where he interacted with Frans van Schooten, Johannes Hudde, and Christiaan Huygens. In 1658 he and Hudde left...
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Discrete Analogs of Parabolas" (PDF). Forum Geometricorum. 13: 197–208. Frans van Schooten: Mathematische Oeffeningen, Leyden, 1659, p. 334. Planar Circle Geometries...
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