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analytical geometry
Also known as coordinate geometry or Cartesian geometry, the type of geometry that describes points, lines, and shapes in terms of coordinates, and that uses algebra to prove things about these objects by considering their coordinates. René Descartes laid down the foundations for analytical geometry in 1637 in his Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason in the Search for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method. This work provided the basis for the calculus, which was introduced later by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.
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