Geometry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...c.300 b.c.). In 1637, Rene Descartes showed how numbers can be used to describe...geometry is a further development (see Cartesian coordinates ). The problem of representing...concepts of the calculus are applied to curves, surfaces, and other geometrical objects...