The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name o…

John Stuart Mill
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1865). An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His Writings, p.531
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