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1400 - 1600 A.C.

India
- Discovery of power series for sine, cosine and arctangent
Italy
- Algebraic solution of the cubic equation
Germany
- Perspective and geometry
England
- New algebra and trigonometry texts
Poland
- Copernicus and the heliocentric system
France
- Viète and algebraic symbolism


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Mon May 15 11:54:48 MET DST 1995