Timeline for Historically, how did René Descartes's works affect the invention of calculus?
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| S Feb 28, 2021 at 8:09 | history | suggested | Rodrigo de Azevedo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 12:10 | vote | accept | Ammar Bamhdi | ||
| Mar 13, 2019 at 20:50 | comment | added | Milan | Its all about the tangent | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 20:15 | answer | added | Eugene Zhang | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 24, 2019 at 16:40 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | The fundamental contribution of Descartes was its improved algebraic symbolysm and its systematic use in analyzing geometrical problems, first of all the problem of tangents. Thus, bith Newton and Leibniz studied it. | |
| Feb 24, 2019 at 15:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 24, 2019 at 14:59 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | It is not clear what exactly are you asking about. "How - historically?" As a student, Newton was not satisfied with what was taught in Cambridge, and started to study himself, mostly by reading Descartes. Source: Westfall's scientific biography of Newton. | |
| Feb 24, 2019 at 3:08 | comment | added | Conifold | Descartes invented an algebraic version of calculus that preceded Newton-Leibniz's analytic one, see Is there a 'lost calculus'?. This, his fixation of algebraic notation, and analytic translations of geometry were indispensable in transforming methods of the Greeks and building on them what became calculus. | |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 17:00 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 23, 2019 at 16:55 | history | asked | Ammar Bamhdi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |