Christoff Rudolff was a German mathematician whose book Coss is the first German algebra book. He was born around 1499 in Jauer, Silesia (now Jawor, Poland), studied algebra in Vienna between 1517 and 1521 under Heinrich Schreyber, known by the Latin name Henricus Grammateus, and died in Vienna in 1543. Little is known of his family and early schooling. He was one of the cossists who brought algebraic notation to German readers, including the use of the radical sign for square roots in print.
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Christoff Rudolff was a German mathematician whose book Coss is the first German algebra book.
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Christoff Rudolff was a German mathematician whose book Coss is the first German algebra book.
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The symbol "√" for the square root was first used in print in 1525, in Christoph Rudolff's Coss.
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