How many of you have taken a course in analytical geometry in high school or college ... So, let’s move on. How many of you have heard or know of Rene Descartes? Yes, […] Skip to content. All ...

THIS is a reprint—“nouvelle édition” it calls itself—of the great work of Descartes, giving the first exposition (such as it is) of the system of co-ordinate geometry since known as ...

DAVIDE CRIPPA **, Descartes on the Unification of Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry Via the Theory of Proportions, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, T. 73, Fasc. 3/4, Ciências Formais e Filosofia: ...

As far as famous philosophical quotes go, René Descartes’s cogito ergo sum—often translated into English as “I think therefore I am”—is up there with Socrates’s “the unexamined life ...