Descartes

Descartes wore many hats: he was a soldier, a teacher, a mathematician, and a philosopher. Most of you have already heard of Descartes, the mathematician, but you may not realize it. Descartes invented what we now call Cartesian coordinates, or the system by which we can graph mathematical functions in two-or three-dimensional space. So, all of those problems you have been working in algebra are his fault. It is interesting to consider how Descartes came …

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