Descartes (disambiguation)

Descartes may refer to:

• University of Paris V: René Descartes, a university in Paris
• The Descartes Prize, the European prize for excellence in scientific research and science communication
• Descartes (crater), on the Moon
• Descartes Highlands, landing site of Apollo 16 on the Moon
• Descartes (plotting tool), computer software
• Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, a commune of France
• Descartes Editeur, a French game publishing company
• René Descartes (ship), a cable-laying ship operated by France Télécom
• Descartes (company), a messaging service provider for logistics trading partners
• Descartes number, a number that is "almost" a perfect number
• Descartes' rule of signs, a mathematical technique devised by René Descartes that is used to find the number of positive, negative, and imaginary roots of a polynomial
• French frigate Descartes

People with the surname

• René Descartes (1596–1650), French mathematician and philosopher
• Francine Descartes (1635–1640), René Descartes' daughter
• Blanche Descartes, A collaborative pseudonym for R. Leonard Brooks, Arthur Harold Stone, Cedric Smith, and W. T. Tutte