Cogito Ergo Sum

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Rene Descartes

Let me give you a brief biography of One the famous mathematician and philosopher in history.And yet,he still one of my inspirational men.

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) was a French philosopher,mathematician and natural scientist who invented analytical geometry and was the first philosopher to describe the Universe as he saw it in terms of mind and matter.

He worked out laws of motion.Descartes rejected the idea the everything we observe is false or a dream by saying that,because we have thoughts,we exists.

Cogito ,ergo sum

His latin motto,"cogito ergo sum"( I think therefore I am) is very famous.It means that because we have thoughts,we exist.Descartes approach to science was to question everything. He worked out things for himself from he beginning.Born at La Haye,in France,Descartes was brought up as a Jesuit,traveled widely and fought in several wars.From 1628 to 1649 he lived in the Netherlands.he died on a visit to Sweden in 1650.

“I entirely abandoned the study of letters. Resolving to seek no knowledge other than that of which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world, I spent the rest of my youth traveling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering various experiences, testing myself in the situations which fortune offered me, and at all times reflecting upon whatever came my way so as to derive some profit from it. (Descartes, Discourse on the Method)”