Viète's generation of triangles (Q2762097)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1686877
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1686877 |
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4 February 2002
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complex numbers
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geometric representation
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Viète's product of triangles
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Wessel's product
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Viète's generation of triangles (English)
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In this short note the author points out the similarity between Viète's product of triangles, contained in a section of \textit{Isagoge in Artem Analyticem} entitled ``The genesis of Triangle's'', and Wessel's product of directed line segments. However he does not know whether Wessel had access to or had seen this Viète's paper.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0970.00008].
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