What Descartes knew of mathematics in 1628

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2010.04.002zbMath1195.01011OpenAlexW2024853066MaRDI QIDQ990265

David Rabouin

Publication date: 6 September 2010

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2010.04.002

zbMATH Keywords

DescartesRegulaeBeeckman

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

Related Items (1)

Frans van Schooten's contribution to Descartes' \textit{Discours de la méthode}

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• Arguments on motivation in the rise and decline of a mathematical theory; the Construction of equations, 1637 - ca. 1750
• The ovals in the Excerpta Mathematica and the origins of Descartes' method of normals
• Algebra in Roth, Faulhaber, and Descartes
• Des Regulae à la Géométrie/From the Regulae to the Géométrie
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