"On symbolic use of equalities and proportions. Chapter II. The analytical method accepts as proven the most famous [ …"

"In mathematics there is a certain way of seeking the truth, a way which Plato is said first to have discovered and wh…"

"Vieta presented his analytic art as "the new algebra" and took its name from the ancient mathematical method of "anal…"

"Vieta's innovation contains three interrelated and interdependent aspects. ...methodical ...making calculation possib…"

"A major advance in notation with far-reaching consequences was François Viète's idea, put forward in his "Introductio…"

"Ars Magna, published in 1545... contains many valuable discoveries; but that which has been most celebrated is the ru…"

"Cossali has given the larger part of a quarto volume to the algebra of Cardan; his object being to establish the prio…"

"Rhaeticus was not a ready calculator only... Up to his time, the trigonometric functions had been considered always w…"

"Cardan applied the Hindoo rule of "false position" (called by him regula aurea) to the cubic, but this mode of approx…"

"Vieta [was] the most eminent French mathematician of the sixteenth century."