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
- University of Paris V: René Descartes, a university in Paris
See also
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- 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
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- Cartesian (disambiguation)
- Cartes (disambiguation)
- Carte (disambiguation)
- Cart (disambiguation)
- DES (disambiguation)
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