 François Viète by John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson

By John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson, credited as J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Their full names are established by their own MacTutor profile headings.

Hosted by the University of St Andrews in the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Last Update: January 2000; this is an online revision date, not a publication date.

Online biography: mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Viete/

Cited passages: Byline: Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson; Last Update January 2000; Quick Info: born 1540 died 13 December 1603; Paragraphs describing the 1591 In artem analyticam isagoge notation, known/unknown symbols, dimensional homogeneity and connection of positive roots to coefficients.