Nicolas Chuquet , c.1450-1500, French mathematician, probably b. Paris. Little is known of Chuquet's life. At Lyons in 1484 he composed a manuscript on the science of numbers, which was finally published in two parts in 1880 and 1881. The first part, called the "Triparty," was a treatise on algebra and contained the first use of the radical sign with an index (such as the number 3, indicating a cube root); the second part contained the statement of, and the replies to, a set of 156 mathematical problems.
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FOUR MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS WITH MATHEMATICAL GAMES.
Medium Aevum; 9/22/1999; ELDREDGE, L. M. SCHMIDT, KARI ANNE RAND SMITH, M. B.; 3847 words;
... conclusive. This trick is also found in Nicolas Chuquet's Triparty en la science des nombres ... the earliest Renaissance algebra. Chuquet gives no mnemonics to assist in ... seventeenth century, but aside from Chuquet's Triparty we know of only the ...
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Word of the Week: Trillion
The Scotsman; 7/31/2004; George Kerevan; 352 words;
... in Europe around 1270. Billion, trillion et al were invented in the late 15th century by the French mathematician, Nicolas Chuquet. He plumped for the trillion as only a thousand million and from there it was adopted by America. Back in Britain ...
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