Francisci Vietae Opera Mathematica in unum volumen congesta …

by François / Schooten ViÈTe, Frans van

$12,000 · Offered by Martayan Lan

Rare first edition of the collected mathematical writings of the François Viète (1540-1603), who was “the first extensively to use letters of the alphabet to present numerical quantities and the foremost algebraist of the sixteenth century” (Hutchinson’s Dictionary of Scientific Bibliography, p. 690). Viète used letters “both for known …..... More

• Binding: Leather

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