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  • "Vieta," and he will be amused with the constant recurrence of

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • Pfizer said that "an implication that Pfizer improperly influenced any aspect of the published Vieta study for commercial reasons is without basis," adding that the drug lost its patent protection and top-selling status in 2004.

    Suit Alleges Pfizer Spun Unfavorable Drug Studies 2008

  • I do know that in La Vieta (ph), which is an area that has been hit heavily in the past with high flooding and, of course, we're not sure if tornadoes have ever hit that area, but it is an area that is normally hit.

    CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2007 2007

  • KING: Dr. Gupta, what can you tell me about this drug Vieta which helped patients lose I understand five pounds in 30 weeks?

    CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2006 2006

  • François Viète (Vieta) (1540–1603) introduced literal notation in algebra, that is, the systematic use of letters to represent both coefficients and unknown quantities in algebraic equations.

    1546 2001

  • To Vieta as a mathematician Huygens, Halley, Chasles, and Fourier have given high rank.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • To the latter, as king, Vieta, while councilor of the Parlement in Tours, rendered signal service by discovering the key to the Spanish cipher.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Vieta discovered the formula for deriving the sine of a multiple angle.

    The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

  • Vieta in France first applied letters as general symbols of quantity, though the earlier algebraists used them occasionally, chiefly as abbreviations.

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • [110] Montucla, who as a historian of Mathematics has a strong bias against Cardan, gives him credit for the discovery of the _fictæ radices_, but on the other hand he attributes to Vieta Cardan's discovery of the method of changing a complete cubic equation into one wanting the second term.

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

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