Rene Descartes. Artwork of the French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes (1596-1650),seen with some equations and lines. At top right is a cartesian equation describing a curved line called a parabola. The equations at lower right show the relationship between cartesian and polar coordinates. Polar coordinates give the position of a point by a distance and an angle,while cartesian coordinates describe the point using a vertical (y) and a horizontal (x) distance. Descartes created this coordinate,or cartesian,geometry in which geometrical problems are converted into algebraic forms so that algebraic techniques may be used to solve them | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Terry, Sheila |
Taille de l’image : | 2135 px × 2756 px |
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