René Descartes

"Descartes emphasized the importance of his own mind. He asserted that he would accept only those things that his reason were true."

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Descartes was a very philosophical person. In fact he's the father of modern philosophy

He thought the world on 3 axes, he had to do this while he was trying to solve the riddle of pappus.

But to be more specific he invented the coordinate system while he was sleeping with one oven at he's side and had 3 dreams.

the answer you're looking for, is that "Descartes dreamt the coordinate system, then he did it reality on a compendium of one of he's 3 books of philosopy"

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René Descartes profoundly influenced Western civilization by establishing a foundation for modern philosophy and mathematics. His method of doubt and emphasis on rationalism shifted the focus from medieval scholasticism to individual reasoning, paving the way for Enlightenment thinking. Additionally, his work in analytic geometry laid the groundwork for advancements in calculus and modern science, reshaping our understanding of both philosophy and mathematics. Descartes' famous declaration, "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am"), encapsulates his impact on self-awareness and the nature of existence in Western thought.

How did Rene Descartes come up the cartesian plane?

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Rene Descartes has been a role model for critical and creative thinking because of his revolutionary way of thinking. His desire for rationality and logic was major change of pace in his time and for generations following.

Rene Descartes helped form the early ideas of psychology, before psychology was an established field. His most important contribution to modern psychology is probably the idea of the mind and body being separate entities, which has major implications for why and how we experience emotions.

It enabled mathematicians to apply algebra to solve geometric problems.

Because René Descartes developed the Cartesian coordinate system, this system allows geometric shapes to be expressed in algebraic equations.

Descartes' works is still today the basis in analytic geometry.

In Discourse on Method it would seem that he indeed does disprove God's existence only to hastily come up with an excuse as to how, despite all the evidence previously provided, that God actually exists. The logical leap to get there as you might find isn't terribly convincing, but convincing enough for the clergy at the time as he was never reprimanded for the work. If you doubt that he disproved God, consider his epitaph: "He who hides well lives well." For someone using reason to disproves God's existence in the time that he lived, this seems especially apt.

Rene Descartes made a huge impact on the Age of Enlightenment. He promoted theories on philosophy, mathematics, and science based on ideas that he got while dreaming.

I heard he had a wife and kids so that answers that question, but I do not know how many kids he had so if anyon can answer that please tell me below or whatever.

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It is claimed thaht he got his inspiration while in bed - and watching a fly (or some bug) on the ceiling. He worked out that he could describe the bug's position on the ceiling using coordinates. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Descartes' theory provided the basis for the calculus of Newton and Leibniz, by applying infinitesimal calculus to the tangent line problem, thus permitting the evolution of that branch of modern mathematics. This appears even more astounding considering that the work was just intended as an example to his Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences (Discourse on the Method to Rightly Conduct the Reason and Search for the Truth in Sciences, better known under the shortened title Discours de la méthode). Descartes' rule of signs is also a commonly used method in modern mathematics to determine possible quantities of positive and negative zeros of a function. Descartes created analytic geometry, and discovered the law of conservation of momentum. He outlined his views on the universe in his Principles of Philosophy. Descartes also made contributions to the field of optics. He showed by using geometric construction and the law of refraction (also known as Descartes' law) that the angular radius of a rainbow is 42 degrees (i.e. the angle subtended at the eye by the edge of the rainbow and the ray passing from the sun through the rainbow's centre is 42°). He also independently discovered the law of reflection, and his essay on optics was the first published mention of this law.[7] One of Descartes most enduring legacies was his development of Cartesian geometry, the algebraic system taught in schools today. He also created exponential notation, indicated by numbers written in what is now referred to as superscript.

He did not have to. Anything which was named after him was called Cartesian, so it must have been quite easy for him.

Rene Descartes 1596-1650, a Frenchman who spent most of his living days in the former Dutch Republic. Descartes who is also known as the Father of Modern Philosophy due to much of his work still heavily influencing philosophy today.

Who inspired René Descartes?

• In Breda, Descartes was encouraged in his studies of science and mathematics by the physicist Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637), for whom he wrote the Compendium of Music (written 1618, published 1650), his first surviving work.

Rene Descartes did win any awards or special recognition.

He was a French mathematician and philosopher and he invented Cartesian coordinates of y = mx+c whereas m is the slope and c is the y intercept on a straight line equation.

Descartes' dualism stated that the mind and body were distinct and occupied different planes of reality. A monism theory of reality believes that there is only one reality, and would state that the mind and body are connected. Pluralism believes that there are many realities, not just two, so the mind and body might be distinct, but there would also be other planes of reality.