Opera Mathematica in unum volumen congesta..

by François ViÈTe, Frans van Schooten, ed

$12,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Leiden: Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1646. First collected edition, rare, of the mathematical writings of François Viète 1540-1603 , the greatest French mathematician of the sixteenth century, who was “the first extensively to use letters of the alphabet to represent numerical quantities” Hutchinson’s Dictionary of Scientific Bibliography, p. 690 , and “the first

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