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1st photo - Rene Descartes is a world-renowned creative mathematician and philosopher. During his early times, he had an immense faith in introspection guided by definitions, sound argument and clarity of thought could achieve.

2nd photo - While in bohemia 1619, he designed scientific calculation, a strategy for taking care of logarithmic issues arithmetically. Descartes demanded that every key thought and the constraints of every issue must be obviously characterized. He also added religious philosophy to his investigations. So he voyaged, and joined the military, and was acquainted with Dutch researcher Isaac Beckman.

3rd photo - He traveled to northern and southern Europe for 9 years to increase his knowledge. On his journey he studied "the book of the world", he also invented the idea of analytical geometry while he was in bohemia in 1619. These things are just one of the knowledge he learned when he traveled.

4th photo - René died in 1650 before the French Revolution begun but he contributed knowledge and idea for the people.
His analytical geometry was a tremendous conceptual breakthrough, linking the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra.
René Descartes invented analytical geometry and introduced skepticism as an essential part of the scientific method.

5th photo - Rene Descartes was in Stockholm to help the queen of Sweden to set up an academy of Science. He died on February 11, in Stockholm, Sweden, succumbing to pneumonia at the age of 53. And his German valet said that Descartes was in a coma and died without saying anything at all.

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