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answers this question: Ren Descartes was a French man who lived in the 1600s
. ... he was often sick, so the teachers at his boarding school let him stay in bed 
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named after him. ..... For him the philosophy was a thinking system that embodied 
all knowledge, .... A Cartesian coordinates graph, using his invented x and y axes
. [DOC] [TLE] Cartesian coordinate system - Wikipedia [PAR] A Cartesian coordinate system is a coordinate system that specifies each point 
uniquely in a ... Using the Cartesian coordinate system, geometric shapes (such 
as curves) can be described by ... The adjective Cartesian refers to the French 
Mathematician and Philosopher Ren Descartes who published this idea in 1637
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He developed a design for an improved telescope and mapped the pathway of ... 
is most famous for is The Cartesian Coordinate System that is named after him. ... 
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Diophantus, Al-Khwarizmi and Franois Vite, "La Gomtrie" introduced what 
has become known as the standard algebraic notation, using lowercase a, ... Any 
equation can be represented on the plane by plotting on it the solution set of the 
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coordinates are named after the 17th century French ... There is a (probably 
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Rene and another mathematician named Fermat worked together to find a ... 
Descartes and Fermat came up with a system we now call coordinate ... This is 
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the ... the French mathematician Ren Descartes development in the creation 
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to ... This coordinate plane became known as the "Cartesian plane," named after 
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Question: French mathematician who devised the plotting system that uses coordinates named for him
Answer: Rene Descartes