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Rene
Descartes(1596-1650)

A French philosopher and mathematician. He was the first major
philosopher in the modern era to make a serious effort to defeat skepticism.
His views about knowledge and certainty and those on the relationship
between mind and body have been very influential over the last three
centuries." I am thinking there fore I exist" (Latin -'Cogito ergo sum'-
from the discourse on method). He revelolutionized geometry, algebra and
mathematical notation, to reduce the physical sciences to mathematics. He
represented algebraic equations as geometrical curves, helping to establish
co-ordinate geometry.
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