René Descartes
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René Descartes
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René Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry. Descartes spent much of his working life in the Dutch Republic, initially serving the Dutch States Army, and later becoming a central intellectual of the Dutch Golden Age. Although he served a Pr
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French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
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2001-10-30T18:59:03Z
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2024-08-31T21:37:31Z
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