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Quotes

• “He was employed throughout life in the service of the state, under Henry III and Henry IV. He was, therefore, not a math...”
• “In Vieta's algebra we discover a partial knowledge of the relations existing between the coefficients and the roots of a...”
• “There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered; Theon name...”
• “Vieta's principle advance in trigonometry was his systematic application of algebra. ...he worked freely with all six of...”
• “The most epoch making innovation in algebra due to Vieta is the denoting of general or indefinite quantities by letters ...”
• “Improving on the devices of his European predecessors, Vieta gave a uniform method for the numerical solution of algebra...”
• “, "Nastalgia and Phenomenon: Hussel and Patočka on the End of the Ancient Cosmos," The Phenomenological Critique of Math...”
• “He was well acquainted with the extant writings of the Greek geometricians, and introduced the curious custom, which dur...”
• “During the war against Spain, Vieta rendered service to Henry IV by deciphering intercepted letters written in a species...”
• “Exponents and our symbol (=) for equality were not yet in use; but... Vieta employed the Maltese cross (+) as the short-...”
• “Vieta (c. 1590) rejected the name "algebra" as having no significance in the European languages, and proposed to use the...”
• “After 1580 he gave up most of his leisure to mathematics, though his great work, In Artem Analyticam Isagoge, in which h...”
• “From Frédéric Louis Ritter's French Tr. Introduction à l'art Analytique (1868) utilizing Google translate with reference...”
• “Vieta's formalism differed considerably from that of to-day. The equation a3 + 3a2b + 3ab2 + b3 = (a + b)3 was written b...”
• “In numerical equations the unknown quantity was denoted by N, its square by Q, and its cube by C. Thus the equation x3 -...”
• “He used capital vowels for the unknown quantities and capital consonants for the known, thus being able to express sever...”
• “Vieta's notation is not so convenient as that previously used by Stifel, Bombelli, and Stevinus, but it was more general...”
• “Ch. 1 as quoted by Douglas M. Jesseph, Squaring the Circle: The War Between Hobbes and Wallis (1999) p. 225”
• “Ch. 1 as quoted by Jacob Klein, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra (1934-1936) Appendix.”
• “Vieta: 1QC - 15QQ + 85C - 225Q + 274N, aequator 120. Modern form:x^6 - 15x^4 + 85x^3 - 225x^2 + 274x = 120”
• “, "Nastalgia and Phenomenon: Hussel and Patočka on the End of the Ancient Cosmos," (2015) ibid.”
• “Vieta [was] the most eminent French mathematician of the sixteenth century.”
• “Introduction à l'art Analytique (1868) French Tr. Frédéric Louis Ritter”
• “Jean-Pierre Tignol, Galois' Theory of Algebraic Equations (2001)”