Yes at his time, in the Renaissance, the Church was very powerful. He was provoking questioning about God and proving Methods of thinking and science. Math and Science were enemies of the Church and if one was an enemy of the Church of course you're going to be controversial. Hope this helps lol.
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Rene Descartes valued rationality and human logic. Descartes is famous for his sentence, "I think, therefore I am." It was the mind that Descartes valued more than anything else.
He was highly intelligent and incredible prolific writer, publishing many papers in a short period of 20 years. He made major advances in many areas including philosophy, mathematics, and religion. The (x,y) coordinate system or Cartesian coordinate system is named after Descartes. Some of his ideas on religion were controversial, so he was non-conformist. His ideas were counter to the teachings of the church. He was courageous, but also pragmatic, as he did not publish his last book, knowing he would be condemned by the Catholic church. You can read more on his personality in the related links. His family ties seem strained at times.
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Descartes believed that the human mind contained particular innate ideas, one of which was infinity. Rene Descartes was a French philosopher.