René Descartes' Curve-Drawing Devices: Experiments in the Relations Between Mechanical Motion and Symbolic Language

DOI10.2307/2691256zbMath0968.01011OpenAlexW4245920896MaRDI QIDQ4213476

David Dennis

Publication date: 13 October 1998

Published in: Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2691256

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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