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- algebraic geometry
- In algebraic geometry
An algebraic curve C is the graph of an equation f(x, y) = 0, with points at infinity added, where f(x, y) is a polynomial, in two complex variables, that cannot be factored. Curves are classified by a nonnegative integer—known as their genus, g—that can be…
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- In algebraic geometry
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- algebraic versus transcendental objects
- In Algebraic Versus Transcendental Objects
One important difference between the differential calculus of Pierre de Fermat and René Descartes and the full calculus of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is the difference between algebraic and transcendental objects. The rules of differential calculus are complete
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- In Algebraic Versus Transcendental Objects