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Quote: Viete introduced "analytics" and the use of letters in the theory of equations; e.g., x^2+ax+b=0
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[Francois Viete] is best remembered as the man who … something we express by saying that he studied … [p. 75, Viete also introduced the word "analytics" to modern mathematics.] The term "zetetics" never became popular. Google-1 Google-2
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Topic: history of mathematics (57 items)
Topic: abstraction (62 items)
Group: mathematics (23 topics, 554 quotes)