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Descartes on Polyhedra: A Study of the "De solidorum elementis" is a book in the history of mathematics, concerning the work of René Descartes on polyhedra.Central to the book is the disputed priority for Euler's polyhedral formula between Leonhard Euler, who published an explicit version of the formula, and Descartes, whose De solidorum elementis includes a result from which the formula is ...
Denial or abnegation (German: Verleugnung, Verneinung) is a psychological defense mechanism postulated by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.
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
René Descartes The Cartesian circle (also known as Arnauld 's circle [ 1 ] ) is an example of fallacious circular reasoning attributed to French philosopher René Descartes . He argued that the existence of God is proven by reliable perception , which is itself guaranteed by God.
Declassified MKUltra documents. Project MKUltra [a] was a human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used during interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. [1]
This is the list of things named after René Descartes (1596–1650), a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Computer science [ edit ] Cartesian genetic programming
Descartes is often regarded as the first thinker to emphasize the use of reason to develop the natural sciences. [4] For him, philosophy was a thinking system that embodied all knowledge, as he related in a letter to a French translator: [5]
Lycée Descartes (formerly known as Lycée Gouraud) is a French international school in Rabat, Morocco. [1] The establishment is directly managed by the AEFE , [2] an agency under the administration of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs , that assures the quality of schools teaching the French national curriculum outside France.