3 lives in this collection worked in analytic geometry, from 1596 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: optics. All fields
Philosopher and mathematician who joined algebra to geometry, published the sine law of refraction and the theory of the rainbow, and built a mechanical physics of inertia and vortices.
analytic geometry, algebra, optics
Toulouse magistrate whose letters founded modern number theory, co-founded analytic geometry and probability, anticipated differential calculus and introduced the principle of least time.
number theory, analytic geometry, calculus
Geometer who introduced line coordinates, the Plücker formulas and line geometry, and physicist who first observed the magnetic deflection of the cathode glow and studied gas spectra.
analytic geometry, algebraic curves, line geometry