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1135 – Sharafeddin Tusi followed al-Khayyam's application of algebra to geometry, and wrote a treatise on cubic equations which "represents an essential contribution to another algebra which aimed to study curves by means of equations, thus inaugurating the beginning of algebraic geometry." [2]
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1659 - Second edition of Van Schooten's Latin translation of Descartes' Geometry with appendices by Hudde and Heuraet, 1665 - Isaac Newton discovers the generalized binomial theorem and develops his version of infinitesimal calculus, 1667 - James Gregory publishes Vera circuli et hyperbolae quadratura, 1668 - Nicholas Mercator publishes ...
Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers . Classic geometry was focused in compass and straightedge constructions. Geometry was revolutionized by Euclid, who introduced mathematical rigor and the axiomatic method still in use today.
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Robin Hartshorne (1938–) – geometry, algebraic geometry; Phillip Griffiths (1938–) – algebraic geometry, differential geometry; Enrico Bombieri (1940–) – algebraic geometry; Robert Williams (1942–) Peter McMullen (1942–) Richard S. Hamilton (1943–2024) – differential geometry, Ricci flow, Poincaré conjecture; Mikhail Gromov ...