Sentence examples for for analytic geometry from inspiring English sources

What Descartes and Fermat did for analytic geometry, Frege and Russell did for analytic philosophy.

In 1637 the French mathematician-philosopher René Descartes published his invention of analytic geometry for giving algebraic descriptions of geometric figures.

This metaphor comes from analytic geometry, invented by Rene Descartes (1596-1650).

Algebraic geometry emerged from analytic geometry after 1850 when topology, complex analysis, and algebra were used to study algebraic curves.

Polynomial functions may be given geometric representation by means of analytic geometry.

Independently of Descartes, Fermat discovered the fundamental principle of analytic geometry.

Two tendencies in contemporary mathematics stimulated the rise of analytic geometry.

The importance of analytic geometry is that it establishes a correspondence between geometric curves and algebraic equations.

Meanwhile, Descartes had observed the same basic principle of analytic geometry, that equations in two variable quantities define plane curves.

Thus, Oresme helped lay the foundation that later led to the discovery of analytic geometry by René Descartes (1596 1650).

And Descartes gave us the means to do this with his discovery of analytic geometry.