INTRODUCTIONS TO THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY

Rene' Descartes (1596-1650), the father of analytical geometry, essentially dealt with plane geometry only in 1637. The same is true of his co-inventor Pierre Fermat (1601-1665) and La Hire (1640-1718). Although suggestions for the three dimensional coordinate geometry can be found in their work but no develop it J. Bernoulli (1667-1748) in a letter of 1715 to Leibnitz introduced the three coor-dinate planes which we use today. It was Antoinne Parent (1666-1716), who gave a systematic development of analytical solid geometry for the first time in a paper presented to the French Academy in 1700. L. Euler (1707-1783) took up systematically the three dimensional coordinate geometry, in Chapter 5 of the appendix to the second volume of his "INTRODUCTION TO GEOMETRY " in 1748. It was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that geometry was extended to more than three dimensions, the well-known application of which is in the Space-Time Continuum of Einstein's Theory of Relativity....