The Life Of Rene Descartes

The Life of Rene' Descartes

Rene' Descartes was a French mathematician, philosopher and anatomist. He

contributed a great deal to modern ideas , particularly those concerned with geometry. He

was known in his time as a mechanist, because he believed that nature could be

explained through rational means, and inherent patterns could be found. During his life,

Descartes remade geometry and made modern geometry possible.

Rene' Descartes was born on March, 31 1596 in La Haye, Touraine, which was a

former province of France. Rene' Descartes was the third child of a wealthy French

family. Because of his father's poor health, Rene' did as he pleased. At the age of eight,

Rene' was sent to a Jesuit college for formal schooling in the classics. The teacher of the

school was sensitive to Rene's health and allowed him to stay in bed until he felt ready to

attend class. Descartes used the quiet morning to think, and in later life he said they were

the real source of his mathematics and philosophy. At the age of 18, Rene' left school to

begin leading the life of a gentleman in Paris. He found partying amusing for a while.

Soon after, he joined the army and went on to fight in a war in Germany. In Germany,

Rene' had the most remarkable dream in the history of Math. He reported a number of

episodes in the dream, and one of them is usually believed to be the application of

algebra to geometry and the beginning of analytic and coordinate geometry. Descartes

remained a ...

The Life Of Rene Descartes

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