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Rene Descartes = Densest Career

June 20, 2018Original blog post

Descartes lists his accomplishments, from the coordinate plane to 'I think, therefore I am': the densest career. (An anagram.)

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[Title] "RENE DESCARTES = DENSEST CAREER"

"Coordinate plane? Me. Dualism? Me. 'Cogito ergo sum'? Me. I think, therefore I am kind of a big deal."

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-06-20-rene-descartes-densest-career/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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