Who inspired René Descartes?
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Short answer: Descartes' doubt was like WWI - the doubt to end all doubt. Only by doubting everything could Descartes hope to find anything that was certain (even if the only certainty is that nothing else is certain!).
Descartes did not invent polynomials.
Philosophically, Descartes was concerned with the existence of reality.
Rene Descartes was a French mathematician who created coordinated geometry.
Both Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes created scientific methods. Francis Bacon was a philosopher and Rene Descartes was a philosopher and mathematician.