Founding Mathematician relates a branch of mathematics to the mathematicians who are credited with founding or first systematising it, such as Descartes and Fermat for analytic geometry, and runs back from each mathematician to the branches they founded. It is a browse edge for a reader asking who started an area of mathematics. It is recorded only where a standard history of mathematics names the person as a founder, and a branch with no single founder is left with several edges or none.
Founding Mathematician relates a branch of mathematics to the mathematicians who are credited with founding or first systematising it, such as Descartes and Fermat for analytic geometry, and runs back from each mathematician to the branches they founded. It is a browse edge for a reader asking who started an area of mathematics. It is recorded only where a standard history of mathematics names the person as a founder, and a branch with no single founder is left with several edges or none.
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