This is no ordinary geocaching trading item!

Rene Descartes is a USA Geocoin Travel Bug, traveling from geocache to geocache on a very specific mission.

If you do not intend to log your visit on the Geocaching.com web site, please DO NOT TAKE THIS ITEM. Its travels and its progress requires you to log that it is being taken from this geocache. You will also need to log when you place it in another geocache. It's easy!

If you are willing to log your part of this Trackable's journey and place it in another geocache as soon as possible (after you log your find), grab it from this geocache.

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Famous Mathematicians #4: Rene Descartes

Each semester my students complete a “History of Mathematics” project. Through these projects we have learned about some pretty interesting mathematicians. This coin is in honor of Rene Descartes, whose work gave us the cartesian coordinate system that we use in graphing and he applied algebra to geometry. While in school his health was poor and he was granted permission to remain in bed until 11 o'clock in the morning, a custom he maintained until the year of his death.

This coin would like to travel to his native land of France and along the way visit caches that require you to solve a mathematical problem to find the cache whenever possible.