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Full Idea
The real numbers were not isolated from geometry until the arithmetization of analysis during the nineteenth century.
Gist of Idea
19th century arithmetization of analysis isolated the real numbers from geometry
Source
William D. Hart (The Evolution of Logic [2010], 1)
Book Ref
Hart,W.D.: 'The Evolution of Logic' [CUP 2010], p.18