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This lecture examines the development of Cartesian geometry by Descartes and Fermat, including conics, cubics, Bézout’s theorem, and early projective ideas about curves. It also considers irrational numbers, decimal expansions, pi, and continued fractions in relation to the mathematical continuum.
