dmm, 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/
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