Jan Jansz de Jonge Stampioen
January Jansz de Jonge Stampioen, and Jan Jansz Stampioen the Younger, (* 1610 in Rotterdam, † 1653 in Arras ) was a Dutch mathematician.
Life
His father was a surveyor, cartographer and manufacturer of astronomical instruments. Stampioen taught mathematics in Rotterdam and in 1632 published a treatise on spherical trigonometry ( in two books, one with a reissue of the sine tables of Frans van Schooten 1627 ). It shows the influence of Albert Girard. 1638 he went to The Hague as a teacher of Prince William II ( Orange ). He also opened a print shop there and a book trade, in which he published his own mathematical treatises.
In 1639 he published an algebra book ( Algebra ofte Nieuwe position rule), which also dealt with cubic equations by Niccolò Tartaglia and Gerolamo Cardano, and a treatise in which he is a under a pseudonym before ( Johan Baptista of Antwerp) self -posed problem, which on the solution of a cubic equation led solved. One of the problems posed also a dispute developed with the surveyor Jacob Waessenaer from Utrecht and René Descartes, who was not good to talk to Stampioen as this him in 1632 with a geometric object that led to the solution of an equation of the fourth degree, challenged had rejected and Descartes solution. Waessenaer there was a protégé of Descartes and this launched Descartes also a critique of the algebra textbook by Stampioen, which was similarly laid out like the geometry of Descartes, was released on the same publisher and in which he challenged Descartes own methods. The dispute itself drew on for two years. Stampioen finally called Waessenaer with a bet of 600 florins for the solution of a problem out ( the proceeds should go to the poor in Leiden ). The referees (including Frans van Schooten, Jacob Golius ) decided in 1640 in favor of Waessenaer.
Descartes expresses himself unfavorably Stampioen also in letters to Constantijn Huygens and called him a charlatan and mediocre mathematician.
In 1644 he became a teacher of Christian Huygens and his brother Constantijn. He also taught Elizabeth of the Palatinate, daughter of the " Winter King " Frederick V and later Abbess in Herford. In addition to his books and pamphlets, some cards of him are known. He went in 1651 in the Spanish Netherlands and worked for the governor Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.
He is sometimes confused with the homonymous father, a cartographer or with his son Nicolaes Stampioen, who was in 1689 a member of a Commission, which ruled on submitted solutions to the longitude problem (which is why sometimes a death was suspected after 1689). Stampioen but died in 1653 at a gunpowder explosion in Arras. This emerges from a notarial declaration 1681 in Rotterdam and in the will of his father in 1660, he is referred to as deceased.