No, he was not!
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes is primarily known for his work as a mathematician and a philosopher. He can also be described as a skeptic, a writer, and a rationalist.
Rene Descartes was a real person. Nobody invented him!
Rene Descartes was a French mathematician who created coordinated geometry.
Rene Descartes was the father of rationalism.
Joachim Descartes
Rene Descartes does not appear to have had a nickname, although he once enrolled at Leiden University under the name of "Poitevin" and he is now often known as "the father of modern philosphy".
Both Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes created scientific methods. Francis Bacon was a philosopher and Rene Descartes was a philosopher and mathematician.
Rene Descartes did win any awards or special recognition.
It sounds like that Rene Descartes wanted to be a teacher and teach different types of subjects.
father of philosophy -SOCRATES father of modern philosophy - RENE DESCARTES
Rene Descartes was the first to do anything really interesting with them. The Latin form of Descartes is Cartesius and the familiar X-Y coodinates are known as Cartesian coordiates after Descartes.