Johannes Buteo
Johannes Buteo (born Jean Borrel, Latinized as Buteonis or given as Boteo, Buteon, Bateon) (c. 1485 – c. 1560) was a French mathematician and logician. Among his contributions was an attempt to calculate the supposed dimensions of Noah's Ark to fit all the world's animals.
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Buteo was born in Dauphine or possibly Charpey and belonged to the order of St. Anthony. He studied under Oronce Fine and wrote on geometry and [1] exposed Fine publishing a few books Opera Geometrica (1554), Logistica (1559), De quadratura circuli libri duo (1559). He died in a cloister about 1560-64 but some sources suggest he died in Canar in 1572. His contributions included a systematic way of eliminating unknowns in systems of linear equations which he demonstrated in Logistica with three equations and three unknowns.[2][3]
References
- Smith, David Eugene (1908). Rara Arithmetica. Boston and London: Ginn and Company. p. 292.
- Grcar, Joseph F. (2011). "Mathematicians of Gaussian Elimination" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 58 (6): 782–792.
- De Morgan, Augustus (1915). A budgent of paradoxes. Volume 1 (2 ed.). Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co. p. 51.