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François Viète

1540 - 1603

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François Viète (French: [fʁɑ̃swa vjɛt]; 1540 – 23 February 1603), known in Latin as Franciscus Vieta, was a French mathematician whose work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to his innovative use of letters as parameters in equations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Viète has received more than 394,146 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). François Viète is the 30th most popular mathematician (down from 29th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from France (up from 179th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Mathematician.

François Viète is most famous for inventing a system of algebraic notation.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, François Viète ranks 30 out of 1,004. Before him are John von Neumann, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, John Forbes Nash Jr., Évariste Galois, Apollonius of Perga, and John Napier. After him are Diophantus, Gerolamo Cardano, Georg Cantor, Ada Lovelace, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, and Augustin-Louis Cauchy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1540, François Viète ranks 2. Before him is Francis Drake. After him are Ludolph van Ceulen, Charles II, Archduke of Austria, John Sigismund Zápolya, Maharana Pratap, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Hümaşah Sultan, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Magnus, Duke of Holstein, Gasparo da Salò, and José de Acosta. Among people deceased in 1603, François Viète ranks 3. Before him are Elizabeth I of England, and Mehmed III. After him are William Gilbert, Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, Ahmad al-Mansur, Şehzade Mahmud, Andrea Cesalpino, Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg, Pierre Charron, and George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Viète ranks 160 out of 6,770. Before him are Petronius (27), Évariste Galois (1811), Jean-François Millet (1814), Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Georges Pompidou (1911), and Pierre Bourdieu (1930). After him are Jacques Cartier (1491), Peter Abelard (1079), Philip VI of France (1293), Pope Martin IV (1220), Théodore Géricault (1791), and Jacques Cousteau (1910).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, François Viète ranks 8. Before him are Pierre de Fermat (1601), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Henri Poincaré (1854), Joseph Fourier (1768), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), and Évariste Galois (1811). After him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Pope Sylvester II (938), Sophie Germain (1776), Marin Mersenne (1588), Gaspard Monge (1746), and Émilie du Châtelet (1706).

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