num_pages: 48
description: Recognized as the father of analytic geometry, René Descartes was a French mathematician and philosopher. Kids will love this funny and very accessible tale - based on one of math's greatest myths - about the man who popularized the Cartesion system of coordinates.  
language: English
title: The Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Myth
titlecomplete: The Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Myth
genres: History, Childrens, Mathematics, Picture Books, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 106
publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers