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Descartes's Secret Notebook A True Tale of Mathematics Mysticism and the Quest to Understand the Universe Author: René Descartes (1596–1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates have made our physical and intellectual conquest of physical space possible. — But De... more »
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