the first formula in European mathematics to represent an infinite process
... that in 1593, French amateur mathematician François Viète found the first formula in European mathematics to represent an infinite process, a product of square roots that he used to compute π?
... that in 1593, French amateur mathematician <a href="./François_Viète" id="mwAs4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="François Viète">François Viète</a> found <b id="mwAs8"><a href="./Viète's_formula" id="mwAtA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Viète's formula">the first formula in European mathematics to represent an infinite process</a></b>, a product of square roots that he used to compute <a href="./Pi" id="mwAtE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pi"><span about="#mwt39" class="texhtml mvar" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"pi","href":"./Template:Pi"},"params":{},"i":0}}]}' id="mwAtI" style="font-style:italic;" typeof="mw:Transclusion">π</span></a><span about="#mwt38" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"-?","href":"./Template:-%3F"},"params":{},"i":0}}]}' id="mwAtM" style="padding-left:0.15em;" typeof="mw:Transclusion"><span typeof="mw:Entity">?</span></span>