Rene Descartes
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- French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher, René Descartes was born on March 31 1596, in La Haye, France. His parents were Joachim Descartes and Jeanne Brochard
- René was one of five children. His mother had died during child birth when René was one years old, leaving their father to watch over them.
- Joachim then left his children with their maternal grandmother and headed to Rennes, France, where he got remarried.
- Sadly, René Descartes died due to Pneumonia in Stockholm, Sweden on February 11, 1650
- In 1606, René attended the Jesuit college of La Fleche, following a usual course of studies, in which he studied Aristotle. Then, he became a gentlemen soldier in 1608 in Breda, Netherlands. There, he met a man named Isaac Beeckman, who influenced him to study science and mathematics.
- He also developed a system called the Cartesian Dualism, which states that the body and mind are two different things that interact with each other.
- René developed the gap in algebra and geometry
- Algebra
- Geometry
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