Chuquet, Nicolas

Chuquet, Nicolas nēkôlä´ shükā´ [key], c.1450–1500, French mathematician, probably b. Paris. Little is known of Chuquet's life. At Lyons in 1484 he composed a manuscript on the science of numbers, which was finally published in two parts in 1880 and 1881. The first part, called the Triparty, was a treatise on algebra and contained the first use of the radical sign with an index (as in 3); the second part contained the statement of, and the replies to, a set of 156 mathematical problems.

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