Cartesian geometry

Much like Cartesian geometry, chicken tikka masala was most likely not one person’s invention but rather a case of simultaneous discovery — a delicious inevitability in so many restaurant kitchens, advanced by shifting forces of immigration and tastes in postwar Britain.

The moderns, under the influence of Cartesian geometry, have reasserted the universal possibility of numerical measurement, extending arithmetic, partly for that purpose, so as to include what are called “irrational” numbers, which give the ratios of incommensurable lengths.

No, because your sonnet on Cartesian geometry roused even the math-fiend to compassion.