René Descartes (1596–1650) was a French mathematician and philosopher.
Descartes or des Cartes may also refer to:
Places Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, France Descartes (crater), on the Moon Descartes Highlands, the surrounding area
People with the surname Blanche Descartes, British mathematicians' collective pseudonym Francine Descartes (1635–1640), René Descartes' daughter
Ships French frigate Descartes (1844–1867) French cruiser Descartes (1896–1920) René Descartes (ship), a France Télécom cable layer
Other uses Descartes (plotting tool), computer software Descartes Editeur, a French game publishing company Descartes Systems Group, a Canadian multinational technology company University of Paris V: René Descartes, a university in Paris
See also
List of things named after René Descartes 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)