# François Viète

> He put letters where numbers had always been, and algebra became a different animal — abstract, flexible, able to say things it couldn't before.

*French mathematician (*1540 – †1603)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1540
- **Died:** 1603-02-23
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

François Viète was a lawyer who served as privy councillor to Henry III and Henry IV of France, but his after-hours obsession was mathematics. In the late sixteenth century he began using letters as parameters in equations, a move that sounds small and now feels obvious but cracked open the field. Before Viète, algebra was stuck in the particular; after him, it could speak in the general. The work set the course toward modern algebraic notation, and earned him a nickname he never heard: "the father of modern algebraic notation." He died on 23 February 1603, his legal career complete, his mathematical one just beginning to echo.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Scientists, #Academic, #Mathematics, #Law, #France, #Europe, #Early Modern Era

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