Epoch: 17th Century
Description
(no contents provided yet)
Chronology
1637
- Descartes publishes "La Géometrie".
- Continuing the work of François Viète, Descartes solves geometrical problems using algebraic means.
- In this epochal work, he also abolishes the dogma that lasted in mathematics for millennia, prohibiting mathematicians from calculating with lengths and volumes at once
(which, they thought, was impossible because of the danger to mix up incompatible geometrical concepts).
Table of Contents
- Person: De Carcavi, Pierre
- Person: Delamain, Richard
- Person: Vlacq, Adriaan
- Person: De Beaune, Florimond
- Person: De Fermat, Pierre
- Person: De Billy, Jacques
- Person: Greaves, John
- Person: De Roberval, Gilles Personne
- Person: De Bessy, Bernard Frénicle
- Person: Boulliau, Ismael
- Person: Caramuel, Juan
- Person: Cunitz, Maria
- Person: Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso
- Person: Fabri, Honoré
- Person: Torricelli, Evangelista
- Person: Tenneur, Jacques Alexandre Le
- Person: Stampioen, Jan Jansz de Jonge
- Person: Hevelius, Johannes
- Person: Pell, John
- Person: Arnauld, Antoine
- Person: Tacquet, Andrea
- Person: More, Henry
- Person: Wilkins, John
- Person: Van Schooten, Frans
- Person: Kamalakara
- Person: Wallis, John
- Person: Ward, Seth
- Person: Grimaldi, Francesco Maria
- Person: Horrocks, Jeremiah
- Person: Mouton, Gabriel
- Person: Mylon, Claude
- Person: Ricci (2), Michelangelo
- Person: Brouncker, William
- Person: Mercator (2), Nicolaus
- Person: Picard, Jean
- Person: Dechales, Claude François Milliet
- Person: Auzout, Adrien
- Person: Rahn, Johann Heinrich
- Person: De Sluze, René François Walter
- Person: Viviani, Vincenzo
- Person: Angeli, Stefano degli
- Person: Pascal (2), Blaise
- Person: Verbiest, Ferdinand
- Person: Collins, John
- Person: Guarini, Guarino
- Person: Apáczai, János
- Person: Bartholin, Erasmus
- Person: Cassini, Giovanni Domenico
- Person: De Witt, Jan
- Person: Mengoli, Pietro
- Person: Boyle, Robert
- Person: Moore, Jonas
- Person: Hudde, Johann van Waveren
- Person: Huygens, Christiaan
- Person: Barrow, Isaac
- Person: Richer, Jean
- Person: Cocker, Edward
- Person: Wren, Sir Christopher
- Person: Coley, Henry
- Person: Wending, Mei
- Person: Van Heuraet, Hendrik
- Person: Hooke, Robert
- Person: Heins, Valentin
- Person: Neile, William
- Person: Gregory (2), James
- Person: Malebranche, Nicolas
- Person: Hire, Philippe de La
- Person: Lamy, Bernard
- Person: Mohr, Georg
- Person: Ozanam, Jacques
- Person: Seki, Takakazu Shinsuke
- Person: Newton, Sir Isaac
- Person: Meissner, Heinrich
- Person: Gongora, Siguenza y
- Person: Seok-Jeong, Choi
- Person: Flamsteed, John
- Person: Von Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
- Person: Ceva, Giovanni
- Person: Koopman, Elisabetha
- Person: Papin, Denis
- Person: Aldrich, Henry
- Person: Ceva (2), Tommaso
- Person: Von Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried Walter
- Person: Fèvre, Jean Le
- Person: Rolle, Michel
- Person: Sharp, Abraham
- Person: Varignon, Pierre
- Person: Bernoulli, Jacob
- Person: Halley, Edmond
- Person: Molyneux, William
- Person: Reyneau, Charles René
- Person: De Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier
- Person: Gregory (3), David
- Person: Saurin, Joseph
- Person: De Lagny, Thomas Fantet
- Person: De L'Hôpital, Guillaume
- Person: Carré, Louis
- Person: Craig, John
- Person: Katahiro, Takebe
- Person: Arbuthnot, John
- Person: Bernoulli (2), Johann
- Person: De Moivre, Abraham
- Person: Saccheri, Giovanni Girolamo
- Person: Whiston, William
- Person: Raphson, Joseph
- Person: Magnitsky, Leonty Filippovich
- Person: Kirch, Maria Margarethe Winckelmann
- Person: Grandi, Luigi Guido
- Person: Keill, John
- Person: Manfredi, Eustachio
- Person: Clarke, Samuel
- Person: Jones, William
- Person: Riccati, Jacopo Francesco
- Person: Cassini (2), Jacques
- Person: Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel
- Person: De Molières, Joseph Privat
- Person: Hayes, Charles
- Person: Hermann, Jakob
- Person: De Montmort, Pierre Rémond
- Person: Colson, John
- Person: Machin, John
- Person: Manfredi (2), Gabriele
- Person: Juecheng, Mei
- Person: Cotes, Roger
- Person: Fagnano, Giulio
- Person: Hadley, John
- Person: Saunderson, Nicholas
- Person: Poleni, Giovanni
- Person: Berkeley, George
- Person: Taylor, Brook
- Person: Bernoulli (3), Nicolaus
- Person: Simson, Robert
- Person: Castel, Louis Bertrand
- Person: 'sGravesande, Willem Jacob
- Person: Molyneux (2), Samuel
- Person: Goldbach, Christian
- Person: Jagannatha
- Person: Stirling, James
- Person: Bradley, James
- Person: Bernoulli (4), Nicolaus
- Person: Rampinelli, Ramiro
- Person: Bouguer, Pierre
- Person: Maclaurin, Colin
- Person: De Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau
- Person: Camus, Charles Étienne Louis
Thank you to the contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0! 
- Github:
-
References
Adapted from other CC BY-SA 4.0 Sources:
- O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
Bibliography
- Spalt, Detlef: "Eine kurze Geschichte der Analysis", Springer Spektrum, 2019
