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2007-11-10 20:23:38 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes who made significant progress with the methods of analytic geometry when in 1637 in the appendix entitled Geometry of the titled "Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason in the Search for Truth in the Sciences", commonly referred to as "Discourse on Method". This work, written in his native French tongue, and its philosophical principles, provided the foundation for calculus in Europe.
2007-11-10 20:35:04 · answer #1 · answered by cutting_edge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're generally regarded as coinventors of calculus. If you bracket them together, that's the point. I'd say Newton did more, actually, e.g. by pointing out what Kepler's Laws really meant in mathematical terms.
2016-05-29 04:34:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cartesian Coordinates.
It's as simple as that. Look 'em up.
2007-11-10 21:45:02 · answer #3 · answered by Curt Monash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋