History of Analytic Geometry André-Cardinal Destouches

André-Cardinal Destouches

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History of Analytic Geometry André-Cardinal DestouchesSpecifically designed as an integrated survey of the development of analytic geometry, this classic study takes a unique approach to the history of ideas. The author, a distinguished historian of mathematics, presents a detailed view of not only the concepts themselves, but also the ways in which they extended the work of each generation, from before the Alexandrian Age through the eras of the great French mathematicians Fermat and Descartes, and on