dmm, 1 month ago to math

Born #onthisday 428 years ago, René Descartes was a French mathematician and philosopher. He developed the “cartesian” coordinate system, which is named after him. Among many other things, his work also provided the foundations for discovering calculus a few decades later.

Read more about Descartes' life and times here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/

[Image credit: https://mathigon.org/timeline/descartes]

#descartes #cartesiancoordinates #cogitoergosum #math #maths #philosophy

FlockOfCats, 10 months ago to twitter

The cool folks refer to Twitter as the birdsite

The nerdy folks will refer to X as the abscissas-site.

#twitter #x #math #CartesianCoordinates