Viète, Descartes, and the Emergence of Modern Mathematics, by Danielle Macbeth
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Danielle Macbeth, “Viète, Descartes, and the Emergence of Modern Mathematics,” in “Essays on the History of the Philosophy of Mathematics,” ed. Alexei Angelides, special issue, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 25:2 (2004), pp. 87–117.