Historical Mathematical Events of 17the Century

Historical Mathematical Events of 17the Century

Introduction

The 17th century, with the rise of 17th century, witnessed an exceptional outburst of scientific and mathematical ideas across the Europe that is why that era is also called the “Age of Reason”. The 17th century was the period of scientific revolutions in which many historical mathematical developments were seen by the contributions of Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, Sir Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz etc. the advances in numerical calculations, analytic geometry, development of symbolic algebra, and the invention of integral and differential calculus were the greatest discoveries and ...