Rene Descartes and the Cartesian Plane

Find out the answers to the following questions using your netbook for research:

  1. What is Descarte’s most famous saying?
  2. What did he see on a placard in the town of Breda, that challenged him?
  3. What branch of mathematics is named after Descartes?
  4. What habit did he give up up in the last year of his life?
  5. Now find a map of the school and create a set of cartesian co-ordinates on it. Work out the co-ordinates of the most important places in the school.

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