KnowraFrançois VièteLinked fromLinked fromThe 8 pages that link to François Viète, each with the reason it gives.All 8Related 7Compared with 1AlgebraRelated: His use of letters for known and unknown quantities helped make algebra more general.Mathematical notationRelated: His use of letters for known and unknown quantities advanced symbolic algebra.Vieta's formulasRelated: His writings established the use of systematic coefficient-root relations in algebra.History of algebraRelated: His notation distinguished known from unknown quantities and encouraged general methods.Algebraic notationRelated: His work helped establish the use of symbolic letters in algebra.Rhetorical algebraCompared with: His symbolic approach helped displace purely verbal equation writing.Descartes' rule of signsRelated: Viète's algebraic notation and equation theory helped shape the setting in which Descartes formulated the rule.History of mathematical notationRelated: His conventions made algebraic expressions more general and easier to manipulate.