The Great Paintings Of The World And Analytic Geometry

When we think of the paintings that are hanging in the great art museums around the world, we generally think of analytic geometry--first postulated by the French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and writer, René Descartes (pictured below). Descartes was the first to create a coordinate system (i.e. the Cartesian coordinate system with the x, y, z axises) in which geometric shapes could be expressed mathematically in algebraic equations. To the trained eye the Cartesian coordinate system is there in a painting in the form of perspective and can be represented in the form of algebraic equations. read more

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