Yes, he did. He devised the Cartesian coordinate system which led to analytical geometry.
Rene Descartes.
Rene Descartes
He is the "father of modern philosophy". Together, he and Francis developed the scientific method.
Rene Descartes, who has been called the Father of Modern Philosophy, used alphabetic symbols to represent mathematical ideas. For instance, he used x to denote a variable.
Rene Descartes discovered that rainbows have a scientific and mathematical element to them that could explain their presence. He was able to determine that the whole universe could be explained through science and math.
Rene Descartes was a real person. Nobody invented him!
Rene Descartes was a French mathematician who created coordinated geometry.
Rene Descartes accomplishments is that he was a one of the greatest philosophers of the Renaissance period. He was an outstanding math mathematician, and inventing analytic geometry and attempting to devise the simple universal laws that governed all physical change. That's all I know. I got it from web-sites.
Joachim Descartes
A town that Descartes born was renamed into 'Descartes"
Al-Ghazali was a writer and philosopher before the time of Rene Descartes. His writings greatly influenced the work of Rene Descartes.
Both Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes created scientific methods. Francis Bacon was a philosopher and Rene Descartes was a philosopher and mathematician.