Posed by names the mathematician who first stated a conjecture. Wikipedia notes the Poincare conjecture was "originally conjectured by Henri Poincare in 1904," nearly a century before anyone managed to prove it. This dimension connects a conjecture back to the person who first put it into words.
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1. Algebraic Geometry (Wikipedia)
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The French mathematicians Franciscus Vieta and later Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat revolutionized the conventional way of thinking about construction problems through the introduction of coordinate geometry.
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