Descartes, was not only one of the best philosophers but he was also one of the best mathematicians. This development in geometry provided the first link between the Euclidean geometry and algebra. So not only Descartes conquered the world of philosophy but he also conquered the world of mathematics.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
DID YOU KNOW?
Most of us seen Math and Geometry in our highschool and colloge educations. We all used the same coordinate system in the most basic to the most complex mathemetical concepts. But did you know that the coordinate system, that we have been using for the last ten years of our lives, was created by Rene Descartes?
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They also say that he got the inspiration for the coordinate system while watching a fly walk on the ceiling of his bedroom. He realized that he could describe the fly's position by its distance to the walls of the room, which then turned into the idea of describing a point by its distance to two axes, x and y.
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