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François Viète
(1540 - 23 Feb 1603)
French mathematician.
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Science Quotes by François Viète (4 quotes)
Quod est, Nullum non problema solvere.
There is no problem that cannot be solved.
There is no problem that cannot be solved.
— François Viète
In The New Algebra.
In Mathematics, censorship and criticism can not be allowed to everyone; the speeches of the rhetoricians and the defenses of the lawyers are worthless.
— François Viète
From In Artem Analyticem Isagoge (1591, “Introduction to the Analytic Arts”), translated from the original Latin to French in Édouard Lucas, Récréations Mathématiques (1883), Vol. 2, 1, given as, “Dans les Mathématiques, la censure et la critique ne peuvent être permises à tout le monde; les discours des rhéteurs et les défenses des avocats n’y valent rien.” English version from the French by Webmaster using Google translate.
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.
— François Viète
In Introduction to the Analytic Art (1591).
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.
— François Viète
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- 23 Feb - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Viète's death.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
