THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (17th Century)

Century “heroic” for the mathematics that brought new ideas and methods that are the basis of modern mathematics.

• I Logarithms of Nepero and Briggs, which will allow Kepler to elaborate the theory on planetary orbits and will also open the way to calculation using mechanical methods.
• With Galileo, father of the experimental method, born modern science.
• Cartesio with the “Géométrie” exposes an idea, indeed a method, revolutionary: merges the algebra with the geometry, the analytical geometry is born.
• Stop founds the theory of numbers and participates with Pascal to the creation of theory of probability. Pascal also builds a “machine to count”, the famous Pascaline.
• Two other fundamental and genial ideas of mathematics, derivatives and the Total, which are the basis of infinitesimal calculation, are mainly due to German Leibniz and English Newton.