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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583476403321

Autore

Schooten Frans van <1615-1660>

Titolo

Exercitationum mathematicarum / / Frans van Schooten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Netherlands : , : Elsevier, , 1657

ISBN

1-4933-0404-6

Edizione

[Liber Quinque.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (535 pages)

Disciplina

516

Soggetti

Geometry - Early works to 1800

Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published by Johannes Elzevier in 1657. Republished by Elsevier B.V. in 2014."

Nota di contenuto

Liber primus. Propositionum Arithmeticarum et Geometricarum Centuriam Liber II. Constructione Problematum Simplicium Geometricorum seu Quæ solvi possunt, ducendo tantùm rectas lineas Liber III. Apollonii Pergæi Loca Plana Restituta Liber IV. Sive de Organica Conicarum Sectionum in Plano Descriptione, Tractatus, Geometris, Opticis, Præsertim verơ Gnomonicis & Mechanicis utilis Liber V. Sectiones triginta miscellaneas

Sommario/riassunto

Like his father before him, Frans van Schooten (1615-1660) taught mathematics at Leiden University, among others to Christiaan Huygens. He is most famous for popularizing the geometric principles of René Descartes, but also wrote treatises of his own. The Elzeviers' Latin edition of this book of mathematical exercises was used at universities throughout Europe. Van Schooten's efforts made Leiden the centre of a strong mathematical community in the seventeenth century.