History of mathematics – the seventeenth century
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History of mathematics – the seventeenth century
Maciej Kruszewski 2c
The origins of mathematics
People are accompanied by mathematics from the beginning. First simple calculations were used by prehistoric hunters, women providing the date of
menstruation and war leaders estimating numbers of troops. The first mathematical text was “Plimpton 322'' in
Babylonia about 1800 BC containing calculations in accordance with the Pythagorean Theorem
The seventeenth century
The turning point in development of geometry was publication of work by Descartes ,,Lá géométrie’’, what
started development of analytic geometry, part of geometry involved in the study of geometric figures and
algebraic calculation methods
Origin of calculus initiated differential geometry. It was started by a Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler, and developed widely by German mathematician
and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Differential geometry is dealing with curves, surfaces and its dimensions
It was created at the end of the seventeenth century. It describes methods of presenting spatial figures on a
plane.
Descriptive geometry
Desargues Theorem In the seventeenth century, Gerard Desargues created
and proved one of the first theorems of projective geometry, which is involved with figures properties.
Theorem:“When two triangles are in perspective, the points where
the corresponding sides meet are collinear
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