Cartesian

Cartesian means of or relating to the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. See:

• A reference to René Descartes - from his name - Rene Des-Cartes
  • Cartesian dualism
  • Cartesian Meditations, a work by Edmund Husserl
  • Cartesian linguistics, a work by Noam Chomsky
• Cartesian theater
• the Cartesian diver experiment

Related articles: Cultural movement, French materialism, Dualistic interactionism

In mathematics, the following meanings are found:

• Cartesian coordinate system, modern rectangular coordinate system
• Cartesian diagram, a construction in category theory
• Cartesian geometry, now more commonly called Analytic geometry
• Cartesian morphism, formalisation of pull-back operation in category theory
• Cartesian product, a direct product of two sets

In other regards:

• Cartesian Limited is a British revenue assurance company [1]
• Cartesian Products, Inc. is a US technology company.

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