Template:Did you know nominations/Viète's formula
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:47, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
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Viète's formula
- ... that in 1593, French amateur mathematician François Viète found the first formula of European mathematics to represent an infinite process, a product of square roots that he used to compute π? Source for "first formula...": Maor, Trigonometric Delights, p. 50, "It was the first time an infinite process was explicitly written as a mathematical formula". Source for "that he used to compute π": Kreminski, "π to thousands of digits from Vieta's formula", JSTOR:27643107.
- Reviewed: Joan Bamford Fletcher
Improved to Good Article status by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 00:10, 8 July 2021 (UTC).
Article was nominated soon after promotion to Good Article status, and is sufficiently long and within guidelines. The hook is well sourced, interesting, and snappy. Well done! Hanjaf1 (talk)
- The only alteration that suggests itself to me is "amateur mathematician", which seems anachronistic given the general absence of professional mathematicians in the the 16th century, which could be changed to simply "mathematician"? Or even "lawyer", since that was his actual profession? Hanjaf1 (talk) 07:15, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
