List of things named after René Descartes
This is the list of things named after René Descartes (1596–1650), a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.
Computer science
- Cartesian genetic programming
- Cartesian tree
Mathematics
- Cartesian closed category
- Cartesian geometry
- Cartesian coordinate system
- Cartesian equations
- Cartesian plane
- Cartesian tensor
- Cartesian monoid
- Cartesian monoidal category
- Cartesian closed category
- Cartesian oval
- Cartesian product
- Cartesian product of graphs
- Cartesian square
- Descartes number
- Descartes' rule of signs
- Descartes snark
- Descartes' theorem
- Descartes' theorem on total angular defect
- Folium of Descartes
Physics
Philosophy
- Cartesian anxiety
- Cartesian circle
- Cartesian doubt
- Cartesian dualism
- Cartesian materialism
- Cartesian other
- Cartesian theater
- Cartesian Method
- Descartes' demon
Robotics
Other
- Blanche Descartes
- Cartesian linguistics
- Cartesian Meditations
- Cartesian Reflections
- Descartes (crater)
- Descartes-class cruiser
- Descartes' Error
- Descartes-Huygens Prize
- Descartes Island (Antarctica)
- Descartes on Polyhedra
- Descartes Prize
- Lycée René Descartes (Champs-sur-Marne)