No. 7 - Coordinate Geometry Forget "I think there for I am." Descartes' real gift to mankind is a great reason to sleep late: an important aha moment.
Descartes liked to stay in bed until around noon. The habit started when he was a sick kid, and he stuck with it for the rest of his life. But don't think that Descartes was wasting time hitting the 17th century equivalent of the snooze button over and over. One day, while watching a fly flit around above his head, Descartes realized he could describe the fly's position by saying how far it was from the walls and ceiling.
Sounds like "well duh" now, because you probably studied coordinate geometry, a.k.a. Cartesian geometry (named after guess who), while you were in school.
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