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François Viète (1540-1603)

• 082349872349872 2y ago
  as an algebraist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Viète#Viète's_symbolic_algebra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Viète#Viète's_symboli... as a cryptographer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Viète#Code-breaker_to_two_kings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Viète#Code-breaker_to...
  • defrost 2y ago
    The form of Vieta's writings is their weak side. He indulged freely in nourishes; and in devising technical terms derived from the Greek he seems to have aimed at making them as unintelligible as possible. None of them, in point of fact, has held its ground, and even his proposal to denote unknown quantities by the vowels A, E, I, o, u, Y — the consonants B, c, &c., being reserved for general known quantities — has not been taken up. https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri28chisrich/page/58/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri28chisrich/page/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4_qdFyVnv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4_qdFyVnv8
    • 082349872349872 2y ago
      > in devising technical terms derived from the Greek he seems to have aimed at making them as unintelligible as possible. Whoever coined the zoo from apomorphism to zygomorphism seems to have taken up his mantle? Lagniappe: https://wiki.haskell.org/Zygohistomorphic_prepromorphisms https://wiki.haskell.org/Zygohistomorphic_prepromorphisms [flourishes->nourishes is an interesting transformation; like the rosy fingers of dawn does it turn a flapper into a napper?]
• FrankWilhoit 2y ago
  Very garbled. Well below Wikipedia's usual standard.