Cartesian

Cartesian means of or relating to the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes—from his name—Rene Des-Cartes. It may refer to:

  • Cartesian anxiety
  • Cartesian circle
  • Cartesian dualism, the philosophy of the distinction between mind and body developed by René Descartes
    • Cartesianism, name given to the philosophy of René Descartes
    • Cartesianists, followers of Cartesianism
  • Cartesian Meditations, a work by Edmund Husserl
  • Cartesian linguistics, a work by Noam Chomsky
  • Cartesian theatre
  • Cartesian diver, a science experiment
  • Cartesian physics

In mathematics:

  • Cartesian closed category, a closed category in category theory
  • Cartesian coordinate system, modern rectangular coordinate system
  • Cartesian diagram, a construction in category theory
  • Cartesian geometry, now more commonly called analytic geometry
  • Cartesian morphism, formalisation of pull-back operation in category theory
  • Cartesian oval, a curve
  • Cartesian product, a direct product of two sets
  • Cartesian product of graphs, a binary operation on graphs
  • Cartesian tree, a binary tree in computer science