SWhat changed
Geometric problems could be treated through a systematic algebraic method.
Scientific scope
The 1637 work; not the modern coordinate-pair textbook formulation or all later analytic geometry.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. 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.
Contributors
- René Descartes · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
- ETH e-rara: Descartes, Geometria (1637 work in later Latin edition)
- MacTutor: Descartes’ La Géométrie
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