Many scholars consider François Viète the seminal algebraist of the 16th century. Although he worked in mathematics in his spare time and was regarded as an amateur mathematician, he has contributed numerous improvements, solutions, and...

Although a lawyer by profession, Viète was the foremost mathematician of the sixteenth century. Born in the Poitou region of France, Viète followed in his father's footsteps, receiving his law degree from the University of Poitiers in...

1540-1603 French Mathematician In his In artem analyticum isagoge (Introduction to the Analytical Arts," 1591), François Viète established the letter notation still used in algebra: vowels for unknown quantities or variables,...

François Viète (or Vieta), seigneur de la Bigotière (1540 - February 13, 1603), generally known as Franciscus Vieta, was a French mathematician. He was born at Fontenay-le-Comte, in Poitou, and is believed to have been brought up as a Roman Catholic;...