where did this first orginiate in?
Elements of it appeared in ancient Greece, then in China and the Middle East, and still later again in medieval Europe and in India
Calculus
but elements of it appeared in ancient Greece, then in China and the Middle East, and still later again in medieval Europe and in India.
when are polar coordinates used in real life They are used often in navigation as the destination or direction of travel can be given as an angle and distance from the object being considered what is this system about? A two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by a distance from a reference point and an angle from a reference direction who was the first to come up with this system? Grégoire de Saint-Vincent and Bonaventura Cavalieri independently introduced the concepts in the mid-seventeenth century, though the actual term "polar coordinates" has been attributed to Gregorio Fontana who was the first person? A Flemish Jesuit and mathematician best remembered for his work on quadrature of the hyperbola and who was the second? An Italian mathematician and a Jesuate has he also worked in astronomy? Yes. Towards the end of his life, Cavalieri published two books on astronomy did the system also have conic sections? UNANSWERABLE did the system include complex numbers? Yes. Every complex number can be represented as a point in the complex plane, and can therefore be expressed by specifying the point's polar coordinates how was calculus related to the system? Calculus can be applied to equations expressed in polar coordinates
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Calculus [SEP] History
Modern calculus was developed in 17th-century Europe by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (independently of each other, first publishing around the same time) but elements of it appeared in ancient Greece, then in China and the Middle East, and still later again in medieval Europe and in India.