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@Article{Boyer:1949:IAG, author = "Carl B. Boyer", title = "The Invention of Analytic Geometry", journal = j-SCI-AMER, volume = "180", number = "1", pages = "40--45", month = jan, year = "1949", CODEN = "SCAMAC", DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0149-40", ISSN = "0036-8733 (print), 1946-7087 (electronic)", ISSN-L = "0036-8733", bibdate = "Sat May 18 16:12:04 MDT 2013", bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sciam1940.bib", URL = "http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v180/n1/pdf/scientificamerican0149-40.pdf", acknowledgement = ack-nhfb, fjournal = "Scientific American", journal-URL = "http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican", keywords = "analytic geometry; conic sections; Descartes; Euler; Fermat; mathematics; mathematics history", }