François Viète (French: [fʁɑ̃swa vjɛt]; 1540 – 23 February 1603), known in Latin as Franciscus Vieta, was a French mathematician whose work on new algebra...

polynomial to sums and products of its roots. They are named after François Viète (more commonly referred to by the Latinised form of his name, "Franciscus...

that has Viète's formula as a special case. Many similar formulas involving nested roots or infinite products are now known. François Viète (1540–1603)...

his main treatise. Algebra became an area in its own right only with François Viète (1540–1603), who introduced the use of variables for representing unknown...

to estimate π to 11 digits around 1400. In 1593, François Viète published what is now known as Viète's formula, an infinite product (rather than an infinite...

mass–energy equivalence. Mathematical notation was first introduced by François Viète at the end of the 16th century and largely expanded during the 17th...

solution does not use only straightedge and compass constructions. François Viète found such a solution by exploiting limiting cases: any of the three...

obtained from polygons with fewer sides. Viète's formula, published by François Viète in 1593, was derived by Viète using a closely related polygonal method...

This had previously been given by François Viète for positive roots, and is today called Viète's formulas, but Viète did not give these for general roots...

equations. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the French mathematicians François Viète and René Descartes introduced letters and symbols to denote variables...