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Connected algebraic equations with constructions and curves, treating geometric problems through relationships among line segments and polynomial expressions.
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The record is the 1637 work and its algebraic-geometric method. It does not reduce analytic geometry to the modern Cartesian coordinate pair or erase related work by Fermat and later editors.
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- ETH e-rara: Descartes, Geometria (1637 work in later Latin edition)
- MacTutor: Descartes’ La Géométrie
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René Descartes
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Descartes: La Géométrie
Connected algebraic equations with constructions and curves, treating geometric problems through relationships among line segments and polynomial expressions.
Scientific scope
The record is the 1637 work and its algebraic-geometric method. It does not reduce analytic geometry to the modern Cartesian coordinate pair or erase related work by Fermat and later editors.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
René Descartes
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.