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Before completing his canon of construction in the last part of the Geometry’s third book, Descartes provided the necessary theory of equations in one unknown (sections III B-C in Table 20.1). In the present chapter I give a brief overview of his results.
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Bos, H.J.M. (2001). The theory of equations in the Geometry . In: Redefining Geometrical Exactness. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0087-8_27
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