Adriaan Anthonisz, also called Adriaen Anthonisz of Alcmaer, lived from 1527 to 1607 and was a Dutch mathematician, surveyor, cartographer and military engineer who specialised in the design of fortifications. He served as burgomaster of Alkmaar from 1582 and is regarded as one of the first military engineers to apply the principles of the Dutch fortification system, working on the expansion and fortification of Naarden and Muiden and on a map of the Berger lake. In 1585 he found that the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is close to the fraction 355 over 113. His son Adriaan Metius later published the result, and the value is traditionally called Metius's number.
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Adriaan Anthonisz (also known as Adriaen Anthonisz of Alcmaer) (1527–1607) was a Dutch mathematician, surveyor, cartographer, and military engineer who specialized in the design of fortifications.
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Adriaan Anthonisz (also known as Adriaen Anthonisz of Alcmaer) (1527-1607) was a Dutch mathematician, surveyor, cartographer, and military engineer who specialized in the design of fortifications.
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Adriaan Anthonisz (also known as Adriaen Anthonisz of Alcmaer) (1527-1607) was a Dutch mathematician, surveyor, cartographer, and military engineer who specialized in the design of fortifications.
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His son Adriaan Metius later published his father's results, and the value 355/113 is traditionally referred to as Metius's number.
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Adriaan Anthonisz (also known as Adriaen Anthonisz of Alcmaer) (1527-1607) was a Dutch mathematician, surveyor, cartographer, and military engineer who specialized in the design of fortifications.
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