Cartesian
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Cartesian means of or relating to the French philosopher René Descartes—from his Latinized name Cartesius. 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
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
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