The Great Descartes
Who is the Cartesian coordinate system named after?
Who is René Descartes
What three ancient civilizations used a rectangular grid method to create districts?
Who are Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans
Who was it that pointed out that finding two numbers whose sum is 10 and whose product is 40 leads to 5 + sqrt(-15) and 5 - sqrt(-15)
Did Descartes make the rectangular coordinate system?
What is False
Apollonius and other mathematicians of his day were interested in what type of questions?
What is locus questions
Who Pointed out that when one tries to find the intersection point of a circle and a line, one has to solve a quadratic equation. The quadratic formula leads to the square root of a negative number exactly when the line does not, in fact, intersect the circle.
Who, almost simultaneously found an algebraic approach to geometry along with Descartes?
Who is Pierre de Fermat
Who is credited for the cubic equations?
Who is Girolamo Cardano
Who said “two plus of minus square root of 121,” instead of “two plus square root of minus 121.”
Rafael Bombelli
Why didn’t Descartes work on analytical geometry immediately impact the world of math?
What is people did not want to read in French rather than Latin, and there was suspicions that algebra lacked the same rigor as classical geometry.
What century did Newton create calculus?
When is the 17th century
Who was first? Armand or Gauss
Who is Armand
What is Descartes favorite color?
Ask Johanna
Who extended coordinates to include negative numbers.
Whole discovered this equation:
eix = cos(x) + isin(x)
Who is Leonhard Euler