Background
Place of birth
What is Stockholm Sweden?
The time of his discoveries and achievements
What is The Scientific Revolution?
True or false: What Descartes discovered is not relevant to todays math
False
The Rules for the Direction of the Mind where he created new beliefs on peoples mindsets and how to think using _______.
What is Logic?
How old he was when his mother passed away?
What is one?
The age of Descartes when he attended Jesuit College
What is the age 8?
True or false was Descartes conservative in his political views
True
His role in the concept of analytic geometry and the written works that followed it
What is founder and author?
What he wrote his most notable appendix
What is Discours de la Méthode?
The cause of death of his daughter at age 5
What is scarlet fever?
Duration of attending mathematics and military architecture in the Netherlands as an informal student
What is 15 months?
The religion Descartes followed
What is Catholicism?
His most famous discovery
What is the Cartrsian coordinate system?
How many books did he discuss theorems for polynomials, using letters for variable, and how all curved points can be found from lower order curves
What is 3?
His cause of death
What is pneumonia?
Where Descartes earned a baccalaureate in law
What is University of Poitiers?
Where he wanted his discoveries and ideas to be taught
What is Catholic Schools?
His most famous written work
What is the Discourse on the Method?
The year Descartes published Principles of Philosophy
Hint* He was born in 1596 and he did this at the age of 18
What is 1614?
True or false: Descartes is regarded as one of the greatest philosopher and mathematicians
True
What he was passionate about
What is mathematics, science and philosophical ideas?
Where he returned up until 1628 to see protestant Huguenots
The two key concepts of math he helped connect
What is Geometry and Algebra?
His most famous quote
What is I think, therefore I am?
How the time period during his life effected him
What is the Scientific Revolution and how it allowed for more free thought?