MathHistory7a: Analytic geometry and the continuum

[jehovajah]

This was not a development in isolation but in deliberate secrecy forced on learning societies by the politics and religion of the time. Wallis also contended that Descartes was a plagiarist of the first order, and strove to protect Newton from such "european" treatment. So called Mathematics is as human a subject as any other, subject to human frailties and foibles. What one accepts determines what one perceives. The continued fraction underpins the continuum notion of Wallis.

[jehovajah]

i only comment to draw attention to the English or British Mathematicians. It was in fact Wallis who derived the Equations for the Conics, and it was he who took the Cartesian and De Femat ideas forward to the notion of crossed measuring lines. He even hinted at the notion of √-1 being in the plane. Newton, Cotes and De Moivre were of course beneficiaries of Wallis' insight.

[double00dudeman]

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[radhey58]

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