Jan Jansz de Jonge Stampioen was a Dutch mathematician famous for his published work on spherical trigonometry, born in Rotterdam in 1610 and dying in The Hague in 1653. In 1638 he moved to The Hague to become tutor of William II, Prince of Orange, and a book of his on algebra, dated 1639, was written for the prince. In 1644 he was employed to tutor Christiaan Huygens in mathematics, and he assigned the fifteen-year-old a demanding reading list on contemporary science. He is listed in the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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Jan Jansz de Jonge Stampioen (1610, Rotterdam - 1653, The Hague) was a Dutch mathematician famous for his published work on spherical trigonometry.
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Jan Jansz de Jonge Stampioen (1610, Rotterdam - 1653, The Hague) was a Dutch mathematician famous for his published work on spherical trigonometry.
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