Friday, May 30, 2008

Descarte



Descarte liked to lie in bed all of the time and figure things out. He liked to think about math. He was famous for making the Cartesian Co-ordinate system. He was lying in bed and he saw a fly on the ceiling. He wondered how to tell people where the fly was, so decided to make two lines; x and y.

The queen of Sweeden asked him to come and teach her math. One day, he was teaching her and when he was done teaching, he went back to his room through the rain. He caught pneumonia and in a week he died.

We call him the father of modern mathematics.

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