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Schooten read Descartes's Géométrie (an appendix to his Discours de la méthode) while it was still unpublished. Finding it hard to understand, he went to France to study the works of other important mathematicians of his time, such as François Viète and Pierre de Fermat. François Viète. ... Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat (August 17, 1601 – January 12, 1665) was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, southern France, and a mathematician who is given credit for the development of modern calculus. ...

Schooten's father was a professor of mathematics at Leiden, having Christiaan Huygens, Johann van Waveren Hudde, and René de Sluze as students. When Frans Schooten returned to his home in Leiden in 1646, he inherited his father's position and one of his most important pupils, Huygens. Leyden redirects here. ... Christiaan Huygens Christiaan Huygens (pronounced in English (IPA): ; in Dutch: ) (April 14, 1629–July 8, 1695), was a Dutch mathematician and physicist; born in The Hague as the son of Constantijn Huygens. ... Johann van Waveren Hudde (April 23, 1628 - April 15, 1704) was a mathematician. ... René François Walther de Sluze (Slusius), canon of Liège, (July 7, 1622 - March 19, 1685) was a mathematician. ... Leyden redirects here. ... // Events The Westminster Confession of Faith Ongoing events English Civil War (1642-1649) Births February 4 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. ...

Schooten's 1659 Latin translation of and commentary on Descarte's Géométrie was valuable in that it made the work understandable to the broader mathematical community, and thus was responsible for the spread of analytic geometry to the world. He was one of the first to suggest, in exercises published in 1657, that these ideas be extended to three-dimensional space. Schooten's efforts also made Leiden the centre of the mathematical community for a short period in the middle of the 17th century. // Events May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. ... Events January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...

References

• Some Contemporaries of Descartes, Fermat, Pascal and Huygens: Van Schooten, based on W.W. Rouse Ball's A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (4th edition, 1908).