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  1. Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician by Graham Flegg, C. Hay, et all 1984-11-30
  2. 15th-Century French People: Princess of Condé, Nicolas Chuquet, Philippe Basiron, Nicolas Jenson, Nicholas of Clémanges, Guy Marchant
  3. Nicolas Chuquet: An entry from Gale's <i>Science and Its Times</i> by Judson Knight, 2001
  4. Mathématicien Du Xve Siècle: Nicolas Chuquet, Luca Pacioli, Regiomontanus (French Edition)
  5. Prédécesseur de L'algèbre Nouvelle: Jacques Pelletier Du Mans, Nicolas Chuquet, Francesco Maurolico, Jordanus Nemorarius, Jean de Séville (French Edition)
  6. Nicolas Chuquet: Estienne de La Roche, Exponentiation, Jehan Adam, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Long and Short Scales, English Numerals, List of Numbers, Names of Large Numbers
  7. Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician by Graham Flegg, 1980

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22. Chuquet
Biography of nicolas chuquet (14451488) nicolas chuquet describes himselfas a Parisian and says that he is a bachelor of medicine.
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Died: 1488 in Lyon, France
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Nicolas Chuquet describes himself as a Parisian and says that he is a bachelor of medicine. We do know that he moved to Lyon in around 1480 since his name appears in the Lyon tax registers of the time. For example in the registers of 1485 and 1487 he is described as "Nicolas Chuquet, algoriste". Very little else is known about his life except that he earned his living as a copyist or writing master. Evidence of Italian links in his writings could indicate that he had visited Italy, but it is equally possible that these links come from the large Italian community living in Lyon at the time Chuquet lived there. Chuquet wrote an important text Triparty en la science des nombres . This is the earliest French algebra book although for some time La Roche was thought to have written the first French algebra. Chasles pointed out, in 1841, that

23. References For Chuquet
References for the biography of nicolas chuquet. G Beaujouan, The place ofnicolas chuquet in a typology of fifteenth century French arithmetics,
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  • Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). Books:
  • G Flegg, C Hay and B Moss (eds.), Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance mathematician (Dordrecht-Boston, Mass., 1985). Articles:
  • G Beaujouan, The place of Nicolas Chuquet in a typology of fifteenth- century French arithmetics, in C Hay (ed.), Mathematics from manuscript to print 1300-1600 (Oxford, 1988), 73-88.
  • P Benoit, The commercial arithmetic of Nicolas Chuquet, in C Hay (ed.), Mathematics from manuscript to print 1300-1600 (Oxford, 1988), 96-116.
  • G Flegg, Nicolas Chuquet - an introduction, in C Hay (ed.), Mathematics from manuscript to print 1300-1600 (Oxford, 1988), 59-72.
  • Rev. Histoire Sci. Appl.
  • H L'Huillier, Concerning the method employed by Nicolas Chuquet for the extraction of cube roots, in C Hay (ed.), Mathematics from manuscript to print 1300-1600 (Oxford, 1988), 89-95.
  • Revue des questions scientifique
  • B Moss, Chuquet's mathematical executor : could Estienne de la Roche have changed the history of algebra?, in C Hay (ed.), Mathematics from manuscript to print 1300-1600 (Oxford, 1988), 117-126.
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    26. Notes On Measures - Prefixes
    Then, in 1484, nicolas chuquet, a French mathematician published a system fornaming larger numbers. It was based on the million.
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    What's it all About?

    In ordinary language prefixes have an important to play in modifying the meanings of words. For example, consider these, where the (prefix) offered allows us to see two words at once.
    (un)desirable, (anti)clockwise, (de)limit,
    (in)variable, (im)possible, (in)definite, (re)new, and even (pre)fix itself. It is also possible to run two prefixes into one like (antidis)establishment In some cases, more than one prefix is possible for the word which follows, especially in cases where a number is implied by the prefix. In each of these, any one (but only one) of the prefixes offered could be attached. (uni)(bi)(tri)cycle. (penta)(deca)(dodeca)gon (tetra)(hexa)(octa)hedron And it is even possible to combine them as in that well-known musical expression hemi-demi-semi-quaver The S I Prefixes The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) was set up in 1875 with the principal aim of establishing and publishing standards of physical measurement. Its headquarters is near Paris. Over the years since then its responsibilities have increased, together with the number of different committees involved. However, its main drive has been to produce a rational and unified system of basic measures. And this was launched in 1960 as the or SI Since then various modifications have been made but most are of little concern to the ordinary everyday user.

    27. Sources In The History Of Algebra
    chuquet, nicolas (1484), Problèmes numériques faisant suite et servant d applicationau Triparty en la science des nombres de nicolas chuquet Parisien.
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    If you find errors or additions, please send me a mail Brahmagupta, (628) Bráhma-sphuta-siddhânta Alcuin, (800) Propositiones alcuini doctoris caroli magni imperatoris ad acuendos juvenes CONSPECTUS Mahâvirâ, (850) Ganita-sâra-samgraha Kitab al-Jabr wal-Muqabala Alkarkhî, Aboû Beqr Mohammed (1010) Kitâb al-Fakhr . Supp. Arabe de la Bibliothèque Impériale, MS 952, Paris. Bhaskara II, (1150) Bijaganita . Edinburgh Univ. Library, Or MS. 500. Bhaskara II, (1150)

    28. The Galileo Project
    nicolas chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician, (Dordrecht, 1985). QA32 .F57 1985Cynthia Hay, (ed.), Mathematics from Manuscript to Print 13001600, (Oxford,
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    La Roche, Estienne de [Villefranche]
    1. Dates
    Born: Lyon, c. 1480
    Died: fl. Lyon, c. 1520
    Dateinfo: Flourished (two dates give known period)
    Lifespan: N/A
    2. Father
    Occupation: Unknown
    It is known only that his family owned a house in Lyon on Rue Neuve and some property situated above Villefranche.
    No information on financial status.
    3. Nationality
    Birth: French
    Career: French
    Death: French
    4. Education
    Schooling: No University
    He may have been a pupil of Nicolas Chuquet. There is no evidence that he attended a university or that Chuquet taught at any university.
    5. Religion
    Affiliation: Catholic (assumed)
    6. Scientific Disciplines
    Primary: Mathematics
    His fame rests solely on his Larismetique published in 1520. This work introduced into France the Italian knowledge of arithmetic and useful notions of powers and roots. In 1880 Aristide Marre published Chuquet's Triparty which only existed in manuscript form and suddenly La Roche was a plagiarist. Recent scholarship, though agreeing that parts of the Triparty were blatantly copied and other parts suppressed or curtailed in La Roche's Larismetique, has emphasized the audience that La Roche was trying to reach with his work. At worst La Roche can be accused of patching together the works of three authors, Luca Pacioli, Philippe Frescobaldi (a banker in Lyon), and Nicolas Chuquet, whose works were inaccessible to the average French merchant. La Roche simply made their information available to a previously neglected audience.
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    29. Names For Large Numbers
    The French physician and mathematician nicolas chuquet (14451488) apparentlycoined the words byllion and tryllion and used them to represent 1012 and 1018
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    The English names for large numbers are coined from the Latin names for small numbers n by adding the ending -illion suggested by the name "million." Thus billion and trillion are coined from the Latin prefixes bi- n = 2) and tri- n = 3), respectively. In the American system for naming large numbers, the name coined from the Latin number n applies to the number 10 n . In a system traditional in many European countries, the same name applies to the number 10 n In particular, a billion is 10 = 1 000 000 000 in the American system and 10 = 1 000 000 000 000 in the European system. For 10 , Europeans say "thousand million" or "milliard." Although we describe the two systems today as American or European, both systems are actually of French origin. The French physician and mathematician Nicolas Chuquet (1445-1488) apparently coined the words byllion and tryllion and used them to represent 10 and 10 , respectively, thus establishing what we now think of as the "European" system. However, it was also French mathematicians of the 1600's who used

    30. History Of Mathematics: Europe
    1514); nicolas chuquet (c. 1445c. 1500); Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519);Johann Widman (bc 1460); Scipione del Ferro (c. 1465-1526); Johannes Werner
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    Mathematicians through 1500
    • Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 B.C.E.)
    • Balbus (fl. c. 100 C.E.)
    • Anicius Maulius Severinus Boethius (c. 480-524)
    • Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (c. 490-c. 585)
    • Bede (673-735)
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    • Gerbert d'Aurillac, Pope Sylvester II (c. 945-1003)
    • Adelard of Bath (1075-1164)
    • John of Seville (c. 1125)
    • Plato of Tivoli (c. 1125)
    • Girard of Cremona (1114-1187)
    • Robert of Chester (c. 1150)
    • Robert Grosseteste (c. 1168-1253)
    • Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) (1170-1240)
    • Alexandre de Villedieu (c. 1225)

    31. Nicolas Chuquet

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    Chuquet (Nicolas)
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    "Au lieu de dire mille milliers , on dira million , au lieu de dire mille millions , on dira byllion , etc..., et tryllion quadrilion octylion nonyllion
    met ces deux types de progression en correspondance

    , a ,...a n
    Chuquet comprend si bien le sens profond de la notation exponentielle que, non seulement en multipliant, ou en divisant l'une par l'autre des expressions du type a n , a m
    Pacioli

    32. List Of Scientists By Field
    chuquet, nicolas. Chwistek, Leon. Ciamician, Giacomo Luigi. Ciruelo, Pedro.Ciruelo, Pedro. Clairaut, AlexisClaude. Clairaut, Alexis-Claude
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    Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabeo, Niccolo Cabeo, Niccolo Cabeo, Niccolo Cabrera, Blas Cadet de Gassicourt, Charles- Louis Cadet de Gassicourt, Charles- Louis Cadet, Louis-Claude Cagniard de la Tour, Charles Cailletet, Louis Paul Cailletet, Louis Paul Caius, John Calandrelli, Giuseppe Calandrelli, Ignazio Calandrelli, Ignazio Calcidius Caldani, Leopoldo Marcantonio Caldani, Leopoldo Marcantonio Calkins, Gary Nathan Callan, Nicholas Callandreau, Pierre Jean Octave Callendar, Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Hugh Longbourne Callinicos of Heliopolis Callippus Callippus Calmette, Albert Camerarius, Rudolph Jakob Camerarius, Rudolph Jakob Cameron, Angus Ewan Cameron, Angus Ewan Campanella, Tommaso Campani, Giuseppe Campani, Giuseppe Campanus of Novara Campanus of Novara Campbell, Douglas Houghton Campbell, Ian Campbell, Norman Robert Campbell, Norman Robert Campbell, William Wallace Campbell, William Wallace Camper, Peter Camper, Peter Camper, Peter Canano, Giovan Battista Canano, Giovan Battista Cancrin, Franz Ludwig von

    33. New Dictionary Of Scientific Biography
    Translate this page chuquet, nicolas Chu Shih-Chieh Ciruelo, Pedro Clairaut, Alexis-Claude Clarke,Samuel Clausen, Thomas Clavius, Christoph Clebsch, Rudolf Friedrich Alfred
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    34. Earliest Uses Of Symbols Of Operation And Grouping
    nicolas chuquet (1445?1500?) used raised numbers in Le Triparty en la Science des Negative integers as exponents were used by nicolas chuquet (1445?
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    ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION SYMBOLS
    Plus (+) and minus (-). The plus symbol as an abbreviation for the Latin et (and), though appearing with the downward stroke not quite vertical, was found in a manuscript dated 1417 (Cajori).
    The + and - symbols first appeared in print in Mercantile Arithmetic or Behende und hubsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft , by Johannes Widmann (born c. 1460), published in Leipzig in 1489. However, they referred not to addition or subtraction or to positive or negative numbers, but to surpluses and deficits in business problems (Cajori vol. 1, page 128).
    Cajori says, "There is clear evidence that, as a lecturer at the University of Leipzig, Widmann had studied manuscripts in the Dresden library in which + and - signify operations, some of these having been written as early as 1486." Johnson (page 144) says a series of notes from 1481, annotated by Widmann, contain the + and - symbols, and he asks whether Widman could have copied these symbols from some unknown professor at the University of Leipzig. Johnson also says that a student's notes from one of Widmann's 1486 lectures show the + and - signs.
    Giel Vander Hoecke used + and - as symbols of operation in Een sonderlinghe boeck in dye edel conste Arithmetica

    35. Naming Large Numbers
    French physician and mathematician nicolas chuquet (14451488) devised a namingsystem for large numbers that combined a Latin-based numeric prefix with the
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    Naming Large Numbers
    French physician and mathematician Nicolas Chuquet devised a naming system for large numbers that combined a Latin-based numeric prefix with the suffix "-yllion" (later "-illion") to denote an integer power of one million = 1E+06).  The Chuquet System gradually became popular throughout Europe. In the Chuquet System: "(prefix)illion" = (prefix)
    In the Seventeenth Century, a mutation of the Chuquet naming system evolved in which the Latin-based numeric prefix denoted an integer power of one thousand = 1E+03), but since the name "million" had been used for centuries to represent "a thousand thousand", this system employed a multiplicative offset of one thousand (1,000).  This new system proved more convenient than Chuquet's system, but it lacked the simplicity of the older system.  The new system found favor in France and eventually spread to North America, where it became known as the American System . In the American System: "(prefix)illion" = (prefix) (1+prefix)
    In the Twentieth Century, a British modification of the original Chuquet System attempted to make the naming system more convenient. The Modified Chuquet System , in which the suffix "-illiard" is used to denote a number one thousand times greater than the corresponding number with the "-illion" suffix, met with limited success. In the Modified Chuquet System:

    36. Earliest Uses Of Grouping Symbols
    The first use of the vinculum was in 1484 by nicolas chuquet (1445?1500?)in his Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres. The bar was placed under the parts
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    Earliest Uses of Grouping Symbols
    Last revision: June 24, 1999 Vinculum below. The first use of the vinculum was in 1484 by Nicolas Chuquet (1445?-1500?) in his Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres. The bar was placed under the parts affected (Cajori vol. 1, pages 101 and 385). Chuquet wrote: The above expression in modern notation is . This use of a vinculum appears to be the earliest use of a grouping symbol of any kind mentioned by Cajori. Vinculum above. According to Cajori, the first use of the vinculum above the parts affected was by Frans van Schooten (c. 1615-1660), who "in editing Vieta's collected works, discarded the parentheses and placed a horizontal bar above the parts affected." In Van Schooten's 1646 edition of Vieta, is used to represent B D BD Ball (page 242) says the vinculum was introduced by Francois Vieta (1540-1603) in 1591. This information may be incorrect. Grouping expressed by letters. In the late fifteenth century and in the sixteenth century various writers used letters or words to indicate grouping. The earliest use of such a device mentioned by Cajori (vol. 1, page 385) is the use of the letter v for vniversale by Luca Paciolo (or Pacioli) (c. 1445 - prob. after 1509) in his

    37. Tangente, L'aventure Mathématique
    names of large numbers Information From Answers.comchuquet and the origins of the standard dictionary numbers . nicolas chuquet sbook Triparty en la science des nombres was not published during his
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    38. 1484: Information From Answers.com
    In the year 1484 Mathematics Triparty en la sciences des nombres ( knowledge ofnumbers in three parts ) by nicolas chuquet b.
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    showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping In the year Mathematics Triparty en la sciences des nombres ("knowledge of numbers in three parts") by Nicolas Chuquet [b. Paris, 1445, d. Lyon, France, 1488] is the first book on algebra to permit a negative root to an equation. However, Chuquet does not accept zero as a solution and views imaginary numbers as ineperible ("absurd"). He also introduces multiplication tables. See also 628 Mathematics 1545 Mathematics Transportation Portuguese sailors start using a table of solar heights above the Iberian peninsula compiled by Spanish astronomer Abraham Zacuto [b. Castile, 1452, d. 1525] to determine latitude by measuring the height of the noonday Sun. See also 1483 Transportation
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    39. Mathematics As A Language
    nicolas chuquet, 1484, 42 p31 égault 100. Vander Hoecke, 1514, 4 Se + 3 Pri ditis ghelijc 10. F.Ghaligai, 1521, 4 e 3co 10 numeri
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    Evolution of Algebraic Symbolism
    Diophantus (c. 250 A.D.) of Alexandria was probably the first to use abbreviations in mathematical formulas. Until then, problems and their solutions have been written in pure prose. This stage of development is known as rhetorical algebra . With Diophantus begins the period of syncopated algebra in which stenographic abbreviations are used for the more frequent quantities, relations, and operations. Diophantus used Greek letters to denote integers . A thousand years after introduction of the Hindu-Arabic numerals, we still follow in his footsteps when using Roman letters for the same purpose. Hebrew years are usually written in the same manner by employing letters from the Hebrew alphabet. In symbolic algebra , notations used are virtually arbitrary and often little related to the entities they represent. Introduction and evolution of algebraic notations, as we know them today, was due to the invention and spread of printing. Standardization of symbolic notations was a lengthy process that took about 3-4 hundred years. Below is a table of various forms in which the modern day equation 4x + 3x = 10 might have been written by different mathematicians from different countries and at different times.

    40. Long Scale -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article
    1484 French mathematician (Click link for more info and facts about nicolaschuquet) nicolas chuquet, in his article Triparty en la science de nombres ,
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    Long scale
    [Categories: numeration]
    Long scale is the (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English translation of the (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French term "échelle longue", which designates a system of numeric names in which the word (The number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros) billion means a million millions.
    Short scale is the English translation of the French term "échelle courte", which designates a system of numeric names in which the word (The number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros) billion means only a thousand millions.
    For most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Great Britain uniformly used the long scale, while the United States of America used the short scale, so the two systems were often (and accurately) referred to as "British" and "American" usage, respectively. However, by the end of the 20th century most English-speaking countries had almost universally adopted the short scale, so the phrases "British usage" and "American usage" are now confusing.
    Both systems have been used in (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

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