Mathematician:René Descartes

Also known as Renatus Cartesius.

French mathematician and philosopher who invented the Cartesian coordinate system.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 31 March 1596, La Haye (now Descartes), Touraine, France.
 * Died: 11 Feb 1650, Stockholm, Sweden

Theorems

 * Cartesian coordinate system
 * Cartesian Product

Books and Papers

 * 1637: La Géométrie