[momojo]

I know this is polemical article is in good fun but chatGPT gives me the impression Descarte should not be counted with the others:

https://chatgpt.com/share/68dd758f-2bc0-8008-955d-a7dbd89399...

" Given:

- The blog offers no primary evidence for Descartes’s having a proof.

- Scholarly histories, based on critical assessment of surviving letters, treat the solution of the area problem as due to Roberval (and independently Torricelli) rather than to Descartes.

- The more carefully vetted sources place Descartes in the position of reacting to, or endorsing, Roberval’s result but not of originating it.

Therefore, the weight of evidence supports that the historical consensus is correct — Descartes did not solve the area under a cycloid; the blog's claim is likely an overstatement or misinterpretation."

[ioasuncvinvaer]

I never understand peoples' desire to copy paste their slop into a comment.

[momojo]

I apologize for the slop but it came from a genuine moment of confusion over the author's seeming misquote.