In geometry, the folium of Descartes (from Latin folium 'leaf'; named for René Descartes) is an algebraic curve defined by the implicit equation x 3 +...

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philosophical treatise by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The French translation (by the Duke of Luynes with Descartes' supervision) was published...

English as "I think, therefore I am", is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je...

dedicated to Elisabeth of Bohemia, with whom Descartes had a long-standing friendship. A French version (Les Principes de la Philosophie) followed in 1647. The...

sciences) is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. It is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense...

Treatise on the Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains...

This naturally led to priority disputes with contemporaries such as Descartes and Wallis. Anders Hald writes that, "The basis of Fermat's mathematics...

innatism) was opposed to empiricism. On the one hand, rationalists like René Descartes emphasized that knowledge is primarily innate and the intellect, the inner...

the theory of curves was the introduction of analytic geometry by René Descartes in the seventeenth century. This enabled a curve to be described using...

Parabola Hyperbola Cubic curve Cubic polynomial Folium of Descartes Cissoid of Diocles Conchoid of de Sluze Cubic with double point Strophoid Semicubical...

methodological skepticism associated with the writings and methodology of René Descartes (March 31, 1596–February 11, 1650).: 88  Cartesian doubt is also known...

found by applying this method to each line in turn. For example, the folium of Descartes is defined by the equation x 3 + y 3 − 3 a x y = 0 {\displaystyle...

Fractal Conic sections Unit circle Unit hyperbola Folium of Descartes Cissoid of Diocles Conchoid of de Sluze Right strophoid Semicubical parabola Serpentine...

precursor to Descartes in the invention of analytic geometry.: 248  Analytic geometry was independently invented by René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat, although...

hyperbola Cubic plane curves include Cubic parabola Folium of Descartes Cissoid of Diocles Conchoid of de Sluze Right strophoid Semicubical parabola Serpentine...

scientific system of René Descartes and its subsequent development by other seventeenth century thinkers, most notably François Poullain de la Barre, Nicolas...

a Conchoid of de Sluze. (These curves are not actually conchoids.) This family includes the previous examples. The folium of Descartes x 3 + y 3 = 3 a...

Res extensa is one of the two substances described by René Descartes in his Cartesian ontology (often referred to as "radical dualism"), alongside res...

as an appendix to Discours de la méthode (Discourse on the Method), written by René Descartes. In the Discourse, Descartes presents his method for obtaining...

the Soul (French: Les Passions de l'âme), completed in 1649 and dedicated to Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, René Descartes contributes to a long tradition...

Natural Light (La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle) is an unfinished philosophical dialogue by René Descartes “set in the courtly culture...

presented his own version of the cosmological argument (the first way); René Descartes, who said that the existence of a benevolent God is logically necessary...

Limaçon trisectrix. The trisectrix of Maclaurin is related to the folium of Descartes by affine transformation. J. Dennis Lawrence (1972). A catalog of...

2307/2690881, JSTOR 2690881 Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989. D.E. Smith, History of Mathematics, vol 2 Dover (1958) p. 318 Apostol, Tom M...

René Descartes that the cause of an object must contain at least as much reality as the object itself, whether formally or eminently. Descartes defends...

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