Cartesian

Japanese: Cartesian
Cartesian

...The former is called synthetic geometry or pure geometry, while the latter is called analytic geometry. Analytic geometry is also called Cartesian geometry after Descartes, and is also called coordinate geometry because it is based on coordinates. Note that today, mathematics that deals with limits, such as calculus, is usually called analysis, but before the birth of calculus, analysis meant algebra as a heuristic method, and so the name analytical geometry was used. ...

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Japanese:

…前者を総合幾何学または純粋幾何学というのに対し,後者を解析幾何学という。解析幾何学はデカルトにちなんでカルテシアンCartesian幾何学ともいわれ,また座標が基本となるので座標幾何学とも呼ばれる。なお,今日では微積分学などの極限を扱う数学をふつう解析学と呼んでいるが,微積分学の誕生以前には,解析とは発見的方法としての代数学を意味していたので解析幾何学の名がある。…

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