On the analytic and synthetic demonstrations in Fermat's work on the law of refraction

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Authors Carlos Álvarez Jimenez, Vincent Jullien, Carmen Martínez Adame

Publication date 17 September 2020

zbMATH Keywords

law of refraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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• The correspondence between Descartes and Fermat
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