Analytic
Geometry
Analytic
geometry
brings
together
the
analytical
tools of algebra and the visual
immediacy of
geometry by providing a way to visualize algebraic functions.
Descartes
did this through the introduction of the coordinate
system that still
bears his name, the Cartesian coordinate system. Descartes published
his ideas
in 1637 in a treatise called La géométrie (Geometry).
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