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René Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher (born 1596)
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French philosopher (1596–1650)
René Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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