In 1637 the French mathematician René Descartes revolutionized the study of mathematics by joining its two major fields—algebra and geometry.
With Descartes’s coordinate plane, geometric concepts could be formulated analytically and algebraic concepts could be viewed graphically. The power of this approach was such that within a century of its introduction, much of calculus had been developed.
From book «Calculus of a Single Variable».
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