Elements of Analytical Geometry (Classic Reprint): Embracing the Equations of the Point, the Straight Line, the Conic Sections, and Surfaces of the ... the First and Second Order (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Davies, Charles

 
9780282606282: Elements of Analytical Geometry (Classic Reprint): Embracing the Equations of the Point, the Straight Line, the Conic Sections, and Surfaces of the ... the First and Second Order (Classic Reprint)

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This book marks an era in the history of mathematics by introducing the methods of analytical geometry. By establishing a connection between the two formerly different disciplines of geometry and algebra, the author has given mathematics a new and powerful tool. Using a Cartesian coordinate system to reduce geometry to the study of equations, complex geometrical problems can now be solved by simple and uniform algebraic computations. This valuable innovation has revolutionized the teaching of mathematics and made it possible to extend mathematical knowledge to a much wider range of problems, both in geometry and in the physical sciences.

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