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...Descartes on Polyhedra: A Study of the "De solidorum elementis"|title-link=Descartes on Polyhedra|first=Pasquale Joseph|last=Federico|authorlink=Pasquale Joseph ...

...Descartes on Polyhedra: A Study of the "De solidorum elementis"|title-link=Descartes on Polyhedra|first=Pasquale Joseph|last=Federico|authorlink=Pasquale Joseph ...

...[[Leonhard Euler]], who published an explicit version of the formula, and Descartes, whose ''De solidorum elementis'' includes a result from which the formula ''Descartes on Polyhedra'' was written by [[Pasquale Joseph Federico]] (1902–1982), and ...

...[Frans van Schooten]] on a [[Latin]] edition of [[La Géométrie]] of [[René Descartes]]. In the 1659 edition of the translation, Hudde contributed two letters: " * [[René Descartes]] (1659) [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_eslA5J_AJggC La Géométria, 2nd ...

...divisor|factors]] were [[prime number|prime]]. They are named after [[René Descartes]] who observed that the number {{math|''D'' {{=}} 3²⋅7<sup>2</s A Descartes number is defined as an odd number {{math|''n'' {{=}} ''m''&thinsp;⋅&thinsp ...

[[File:Exemplo-de-ovais-de-descartes.png|thumb|138px|Example of Cartesian ovals.]] ...eometry)|foci]]). These curves are named after French mathematician [[René Descartes]], who used them in [[optics]]. ...

...ngly influenced by the works of Johannes Diderik van der Waals and by René Descartes. ...

He studied [[theology]] and [[law]] in Rome, where he was a contemporary of [[René-François de Sluse]]. He also studied mathematics under [[Benedetto Castelli ...ed [[Marin Mersenne]], when he came to Italy to present the work of [[René Descartes]]. In [[optics]] he studied the magnifying effect of [[lens (optics)|lens]] ...

...Thales]], [[Euclid]], and [[Johannes Kepler]], and the discovery by [[René Descartes]] of a polyhedral version of the [[Gauss–Bonnet theorem]] (later seen to be ...the book's discussion of similar ideas in the earlier works of Kepler and Descartes.){{r|martin}} The birth of topology is conventionally marked by an earlier ...

...o such generalizations have been discussed by [[René Descartes]]<ref name="Descartes"/> and by James Clerk Maxwell.<ref name="Maxwell01">{{cite book|last1=James ...|page=13|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UdGBy8iLpocC&q=bifocal+oval+descartes&pg=PA13|accessdate=15 December 2015}}</ref> ...

* 1637 - [[René Descartes]] publishes ''[[La Géométrie]]'', * 1659 - Second edition of [[Van Schooten]]'s Latin translation of Descartes' Geometry with appendices by [[Hudde]] and [[Hendrik van Heuraet|Heuraet]], ...

Like [[René Descartes]]'s example of the [[chiliagon]], the million-sided polygon has been used a ...

The Cartesian product is named after [[René Descartes]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Cartesian |date=2009 |website=Merriam-Webster.com ...tract numerical information from shapes' numerical representations, [[René Descartes]] assigned to each point in the plane a pair of [[real number]]s, called it ...

...perfect being. In the early 18th century, [[Gottfried Leibniz]] augmented Descartes' ideas in an attempt to prove that a "supremely perfect" being is a coheren ===René Descartes=== ...

...ry and the ancient science of [[geometrical optics]]), courtesy of Newton, Descartes and the Dutchmen Snell and Huygens. In the 18th and 19th centuries [[Joseph ...en by ingenious application of existing mathematics, or, as in the case of Descartes and Newton (with [[Gottfried Leibniz|Leibniz]]), by inventing new mathemati ...

...math>.<ref name="Beckmann"/> In his 1637 book ''[[La Géométrie]]'', [[René Descartes]] classified curves either as "geometric", admitting a precise geometric co | title = On the representation of curves in Descartes' Géométrie ...

...terization of inscribed polyhedra was attempted, unsuccessfully, by [[René Descartes]] in his c.1630 manuscript ''De solidorum elementis''.{{sfnp|Federico|1982| | title = Descartes on Polyhedra: A Study of the "De solidorum elementis" ...

* 1637 - [[René Descartes]] publishes [[La Géométrie]] which introduces [[analytic geometry]], which ...

* Concept of space in mathematics (by [[René Descartes]]) ...

...ost; copy by [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] reprinted and translated in ''[[Descartes on Polyhedra]]'', Springer, 1982. ...Physical Sciences|volume=4|publisher=Springer|year=1984}}<ref>Reviews of ''Descartes on Polyhedra'': ...