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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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    invention of calculus by Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton. Van Schooten's father, Frans van Schooten Senior [nl] was a professor of mathematics at the University...
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    the triangle has degenerated into a line, this case is known as Van Schooten's theorem. A packing problem asks the objective of n {\displaystyle n} circles...
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  • (geometry) Thomsen's theorem (geometry) Van Aubel's theorem (quadrilaterals) Van Schooten's theorem (Euclidean geometry) Varignon's theorem (Euclidean geometry)...
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    equal to the sum of the others; this observation is also known as Van Schooten's theorem. Generally, by the point P and the lengths to the vertices of the...
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  • himself in favour of Frans van Schooten's idea, put forward in his Mathematicae exercitationes (1657). According to Schooten, if the various relations...
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    received. In 1648, the corpus of mathematical works printed by Frans van Schooten, professor at Leiden University (Elzevirs presses). He was assisted by...
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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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    Parabola (redirect from Lambert's Theorem)
    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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    was primarily carried out by Frans van Schooten, a professor of mathematics at Leiden and his students. Van Schooten published a Latin version of La Géométrie...
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    times the diameter of its generating circle, 1659 - Second edition of Van Schooten's Latin translation of Descartes' Geometry with appendices by Hudde and...
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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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    "Ellipse", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press Trammel according Frans van Schooten "Why is there no equation for the perimeter of an ellipse‽" on YouTube...
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    original French edition of La Géométrie, however, but rather from Frans van Schooten's expanded second Latin edition of the work.: 100  Newton continued Descartes's...
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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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    Gallus. Seu, Exsuscitata Apolloni Pergæi Περι Επαφων Geometria". In Frans van Schooten (ed.). Francisci Vietae Opera mathematica (in Latin). ex officina B....
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  • equations). In: Descartes, René; Beaune, Florimond de; Schooten, Frans van; Hudde, Johannes; Heuraet, Hendrik van. Renati Des-Cartes Geometria. 2nd ed. vol. 1....
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    Huygens's De ratiociniis in aleae ludo, Descartes' La Géométrie and Frans van Schooten's supplements of it. He also studied Isaac Barrow and John Wallis, leading...
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    Mathematics Magazine, 15 (6): 278–293, doi:10.2307/3028413, JSTOR 3028413 van Schooten, Frans (1646), De Organica Conicarum Sectionum In Plano Descriptione...
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  • Only after the translation into Latin and the addition of commentary by van Schooten in 1649 (and further work thereafter) did Descartes's masterpiece receive...
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  • 10438 10439 van Schooten 6676 P-L Frans van Schooten (1615–1660), Dutch mathematician MPC · 10439 10440 van Swinden 7636 P-L Jean Henri van Swinden (1746–1823)...
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  • Hudde's rules (category Theorems in algebra)
    ƒ '(a) = 0, where ƒ ' is the derivative of ƒ. Hudde was working with Frans van Schooten on a Latin edition of La Géométrie of René Descartes. In the 1659 edition...
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  • botanist and anatomist Marie du Saar (1860–1955), ophthalmologist Frans van Schooten (1615–1660), mathematician Willebrord Snell (1580–1626), astronomer and...
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    generation of architects were OMA, MVRDV, UNStudio, Mecanoo, Meyer en Van Schooten and many more. They started with buildings, which became internationally...
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    1664 a little before Christmas, I being then Senior Sophister, bought Schooten's Miscellanies and Cartes' Geometry (having read this Geometry and Oughtred's...
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    of Neile, was made by van Heuraët, and this was published by van Schooten in his edition of Descartes's Geometria in 1659. Van Heuraët's method is as...
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    (Calculations in Games of Chance) appeared in 1657 as the final chapter of Van Schooten's Exercitationes Matematicae. In 1665 Pascal posthumously published his...
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    different meaning in the English literature (see Director circle). Frans van Schooten: Mathematische Oeffeningen, Leyden, 1659, p. 327 E. Hartmann: Lecture...
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    Desargues. It was Pascal who encouraged him to write Van Rekeningh in Spelen van Gluck, which Frans van Schooten translated and published as De Ratiociniis in...
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    year which he patented and then communicated to others such as Frans van Schooten and Claude Mylon. Although Huygens’s design, published in a short tract...
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