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is not regarded as having a direct role in fluid mechanics but is included because he is my son's favorite mathematician. was the first to represent mathematical quantities by letters and introduced the plus (+) and minus (-) symbols. He derived a formula for p in the form of an infinite prod ....
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....is used today, often without people realising that a convention is being used at all. (If asked to solve ax = b nobody asks which quantity do I solve for?.)
Vičte made many improvements in the theory of equations. He presented methods for solving equations of second, third and fourth degree. He knew the connection between the positive roots of equations and the coefficients of the different powers of the unknown quantity.
He also wrote books on trigonometry and geometry such as Supplementum .... |
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