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 …
That site is great (so many interesting columns in the archives) but could really use an improved web design to make it more navigable / searchable.
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Yup. I almost missed the links below the blurb and was wondering for a second what the point of the article was. Thought it was just me feeling dizzy. Glad it was not just that.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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