Rene Descartes

René Descartes was born near Tours, France on March 31, 1596. He was born to a family of moderate wealth and was the second in a family of two sons and one daughter. At the age of eight, a young René Descartes found himself attending the Jesuit school of La Fléche in Anjou. There, he realized how little he actually knew, except for one subject—mathematics. It was also there that Descartes developed the habit of staying in bed late due to his delicate health. Upon graduating from school, he began studying law at the University of Poitiers from which he later graduated. But, Descartes never practiced law. In 1618, he enlisted in the service of Prince Maurice of Nassau with the intentions of initiating a military career. During this time, though, Descartes found himse

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In the second book, Descartes divided curves into two major classes. An example of this was his intense involvement with functions. ie/pub/HistMath/People/Descartes/RouseBall/RB_Descartes. School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin. Some of this included the finding of a point where the perpendiculars on given straight lines shall be in a constant ration to the product of the perpendicular on other given straight lines. He finally settled in Holland where some of his greatest mathematical theories were created.

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