MSC2020's 14 and 19 blocks: the geometry of solution sets to polynomial equations, and the invariants K-theory builds from a ring's or a space's structure. Belongs here: algebraic geometry and algebraic K-theory. Does not belong here: differential geometry, grouped under Geometry, which studies smooth rather than polynomial-defined shapes.
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Era Of Emergence All Algebraic Geometry and K-Theory
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1. Algebraic Geometry (Wikipedia)
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The French mathematicians Franciscus Vieta and later René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat revolutionized the conventional way of thinking about construction problems through the introduction of coordinate geometry.
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