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Complex analytic vs algebraic geometry
This is more of a philosophical or historical question, and I can be totally wrong in what I am about to write next.
It looks to me, that complex-analytic geometry has lost its relative positions ...
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Did Apollonius invent co-ordinate geometry?
When I read descriptions of Apollonius' treatise on conics, some of them say that he invented co-ordinate geometry, some say that he kind of did and others are silent on the matter. Or is it the case ...
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Origin of 'Analytic' Geometry?
My impression is that the name analytic geometry, which I understand roughly to be geometry in Euclidean space using coordinates, is not used that much anymore. We would probably classify the subject ...
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