Full Name:
Lived Between: 1596 -1650
Nationality: French
Primary Occupation: Philosopher
Claim to Fame: Aside from Rene Descartes' "Discourse on the Method
of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences",
which was instrumental in the creation of the Western Scientific
Method. He invented analytic geometry, a combination of Euclidean
geometry and algebra.
Recommended Book:
Redefining Geometrical Exactness: Descartes' Transformation of the
Early Modern Concept of Construction (Sources and Studies in the
History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) -- J.Z. Buchwald
(Editor), et al; Hardcover
Recommended Link:
www.renedescartes.com
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