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    Frans van Schooten Jr. also rendered as Franciscus van Schooten (15 May 1615, Leiden – 29 May 1660, Leiden) was a Dutch mathematician who is most known...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • original usage. The vinculum, in its general use, was introduced by Frans van Schooten in 1646 as he edited the works of François Viète (who had himself...
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