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Introduced by names the mathematician who first brought an object to wider mathematical attention. Wikipedia notes the sequence was introduced to the West by "the Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, who introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics in his 1202 book Liber Abaci." This dimension credits an object to the person who first made it widely known.

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Era Of Emergence
1650 1
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1. Algebraic Geometry (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationRenaissance section
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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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