Descartes

This extraordinary Frenchman is principally remembered for his invention of analytic geometry, but he attempted far more. His aim was nothing less than to reduce nature to mathematical law

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 201 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “Descartes” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 4 (), p. 160
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1059-160

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