Abstract
Analytic geometry was invented independently by Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat in the first half of the seventeenth century. (The term “analytic geometry” was coined by Sylvestre Francois Lacroix in 1792.) The independent and more or less simultaneous invention (discovery) of concepts, results, or even major theories is not uncommon in mathematics; two other outstanding instances are calculus and noneuclidean geometry.
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