René Descartes (French René Descartes [ʁəˈne deˈkaʁt], Latin Renatus Cartesius - Cartesius; March 31, 1596, Lae (province of Touraine), now Descartes (Department of Indre and Loire) - February 11, 1650, Stockholm) - French philosopher, mathematician, mechanic, physicist and physiologist, creator of analytical geometry and modern algebraic symbolism, author of the method of radical doubt in philosophy, mechanicism in physics, the forerunner of reflexology.
René Descartes (French René Descartes [ʁəˈne deˈkaʁt], Latin Renatus Cartesius - Cartesius; March 31, 1596, Lae (province of Touraine), now Descartes (Department of Indre and Loire) - February 11, 1650, Stockholm) - French philosopher, mathematician, mechanic, physicist and physiologist, creator of analytical geometry and modern algebraic symbolism, author of the method of radical doubt in philosophy, mechanicism in physics, the forerunner of reflexology.