François Viète Life
François Viète was born on 1540 in Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou (which is now Vendée), France. His grandfather was a merchant from La Rochelle; and his father, Etienne Viète, was an attorney in Fontenay-le-Comte plus a notary in Le Busseaun.As for his mother, Marguerite Dupont, is the daughter of Françoise Brison. His life growing up there was no complication since he was able to attend school with education opportunities which lead to where is now being famous for being a mathematician. He went to a cloister school, studied law in 1558 at the University of Poitiers, and graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1559-60, but for four years later abandoned it to enter the service of Antoinette d’Aubeterre, mother of Catherine of Parthenay, supervising …show more content…
As a lawyer, before he abandon it, he was able to have a contemplative life. “A contemporary historian said in 1620, his meditations were so profound that he was often seen fixed in cogitation for three days continuously, sitting at his eating table without food or sleep, except what he could get leaning on his elbow, and neither moved nor sought refreshment at natural intervals.” After the fours years, he “adventurer” or explored around Paris, but was evicted from the royal court by political enemies. Soon after he was recalled to court by Henry III and promoted to prominence by his astute legal services to conspicuous people, and later served as royal counselor to Kings Henry III and IV of France. In his spare time he worked on mathematics and published his results at his own expense. He has been called the father of modern algebra and the head of the mathematician
François Viète was born on 1540 in Fontenay-le-Comte, Poitou (which is now Vendée), France. His grandfather was a merchant from La Rochelle; and his father, Etienne Viète, was an attorney in Fontenay-le-Comte plus a notary in Le Busseaun.As for his mother, Marguerite Dupont, is the daughter of Françoise Brison. His life growing up there was no complication since he was able to attend school with education opportunities which lead to where is now being famous for being a mathematician. He went to a cloister school, studied law in 1558 at the University of Poitiers, and graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1559-60, but for four years later abandoned it to enter the service of Antoinette d’Aubeterre, mother of Catherine of Parthenay, supervising …show more content…
As a lawyer, before he abandon it, he was able to have a contemplative life. “A contemporary historian said in 1620, his meditations were so profound that he was often seen fixed in cogitation for three days continuously, sitting at his eating table without food or sleep, except what he could get leaning on his elbow, and neither moved nor sought refreshment at natural intervals.” After the fours years, he “adventurer” or explored around Paris, but was evicted from the royal court by political enemies. Soon after he was recalled to court by Henry III and promoted to prominence by his astute legal services to conspicuous people, and later served as royal counselor to Kings Henry III and IV of France. In his spare time he worked on mathematics and published his results at his own expense. He has been called the father of modern algebra and the head of the mathematician