Comments by "" (@zachrodan7543) on "When Descartes Challenged Fermat (and Lost)" video.

  1. If you haven't already made a video about it, another mathematical rivalry which would be interesting to see your breakdown of is the one between newton and liebniz
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  2. 34:02 as many of us who have taken a decent amount of calculus classes (at least 2-3, depending on the school you take them out) know, assuming f is infinitely differentiable, it can be written as a polynomial. However, it might have infinite non-zero terms... which still might become problematic if your method depends on finding all the coeficients so that you can then solve for u...
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  3. 1:18 no. Archimedes was doing integrals long before fermat was even born
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