History The adjective MISC@1 refers to the MISC@2 mathematician and philosopher PERSON@1 -LRB- who used the name Cartesius in Latin -RRB- .

MISC@1 means relating to the MISC@2 mathematician and philosopher PERSON@1 -LRB- Latin : PERSON@2 -RRB- , who , among other things , worked to merge algebra and MISC@3 geometry .
