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