Proposed places a conjecture in the year it was first stated. Wikipedia records the Poincare conjecture as proposed "in 1904," the starting point of nearly a century of failed and partial attempts before it was finally resolved. Browsing by proposed year traces how long an unresolved question has actually stood.
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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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