Just learned from this tweet that Descartes proved results anticipating Gauss's work on curvature and topology that came 200 years later! Apparently it was in a book he never published, as the note "Descartes's Lost Theorem" by Tony Phillips explains: http://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fcarc-descartes1 …https://twitter.com/qualmist/status/1175477548882415616 …
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Sobering thought: there must be a lot of "lost" knowledge like this even today.
12:17 PM - 21 Sep 2019
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