Adriaan van Roomen
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Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 - 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a Belgian mathematician. He was born in Leuven, where he became professor, but then travelled extensively in Europe. He worked in algebra, trigonometry and geometry; and on the decimal expansion of π.
His publication of 1595, Parvum theatrum urbium, contained Latin verse on the cities of Italy (possibly written by Thomas Edwards).[1]
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- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Adriaan van Roomen", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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[edit] References
- ^ Matthew Steggle, ‘Edwards, Thomas (fl. 1587–1595)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
