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Jeux Descartes was a French publisher of roleplaying games and board games. Their most popular lines included: Eurogames, a set of serious board games, previously published by Duccio Vitale 's independent company; Blue Games, small card games for larger groups; and Games for Two . Jeux Descartes was founded in 1977 and went out of business in 2005.
Sesenne. Dame Marie Selipha Descartes, DBE, SLMM, BEM (née Charlery; 28 March 1914 – 11 August 2010), best known as Sesenne, was a Saint Lucian singer and cultural icon. Singing in her native patois language, at a time when authorities barred its use, Sesenne developed a wide following in the rural area in which she grew up.
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.
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences ( French: Discours de la Méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences) is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. It is best known as the source of the famous quotation ...
René Descartes. The causal adequacy principle ( CAP ), or causal reality principle, is a philosophical claim made by René Descartes that the cause of an object must contain at least as much reality as the object itself, whether formally or eminently.
L'Entretien entre M. Descartes avec M. Pascal le jeune is a theatre play by Jean-Claude Brisville.. Created in October 1985 at Théâtre de l'Europe in a mise-en-scène by Jean-Pierre Miquel, with Henri Virlogeux (René Descartes) and Daniel Mesguich (Blaise Pascal), the play was revived in 2007 at Théâtre de l'Œuvre in a mise-en-scène by Daniel Mesguich, with Daniel Mesguich (Descartes ...
Blanche Descartes was a collaborative pseudonym used by the English mathematicians R. Leonard Brooks, Arthur Harold Stone, Cedric Smith, and W. T. Tutte.The four mathematicians met in 1935 as undergraduate students at Trinity College, Cambridge, where they joined the Trinity Mathematical Society and began meeting together to work on mathematical problems.
978-0-399-13894-2. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain is a 1994 book by neuroscientist António Damásio describing the physiology of rational thought and decision, and how the faculties could have evolved through Darwinian natural selection. [1] Damásio refers to René Descartes ' separation of the mind from the body (the ...