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Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 – 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a Flemish mathematician. ==Life== Van Roomen was born in Leuven, the son of Adriaan Van Roomen and Maria Van Den Daele. He became a professor, and then travelled extensively in Europe. After studying at the Jesuit College in Cologne, Roomen studied medicine at L He was ordained a priest in 1604. After 1610 he tutored mathematics in Poland. 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).〔Matthew Steggle, ‘Edwards, Thomas (fl. 1587–1595)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004〕 He solved the Problem of Apollonius using a new method that involved intersecting hyperbolas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adriaan van Roomen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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