Descartes (disambiguation) explained

René Descartes (1596–1650) was a French mathematician and philosopher.Descartes or des Cartes may also refer to:

Places

• Descartes (crater), on the Moon
• Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, a commune of France
• Descartes Highlands, lunar landing site of Apollo 16

People with the surname

• Blanche Descartes, collaborative pseudonym for R. Leonard Brooks, Arthur Harold Stone, Cedric Smith, and W. T. Tutte
• Francine Descartes (1635–1640), René Descartes' daughter

Transportation and vehicles

• French frigate Descartes (1844–1867)
• French cruiser Descartes (1896–1920)
• René Descartes (ship), a cable-laying ship operated by France Télécom

Other uses

• Descartes (plotting tool), computer software
• Descartes Editeur, a French game publishing company
• , a university in Paris

See also

• Descartes number, a number that is "almost" a perfect number
• Descartes Prize, the European prize for excellence in scientific research and science communication
• Descartes' rule of signs, a mathematical technique devised by René Descartes that is used to find the number of positive, negative, and imaginary roots of a polynomial
  • • • • • Cartesian (disambiguation)
• Cartes (disambiguation)
• Carte (disambiguation)
• Cart (disambiguation)
• DES (disambiguation)