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Work Of Euclid For Geometry Euclid
870 wordsThe Work of Euclid for Geometry Euclid is one of the most influential and best read mathematicians of all time. His prize work, Elements, was the textbook of elementary geometry and logic up to the early twentieth century. For his work in the field, he is known as the father of geometry and is considered one of the great Greek mathematicians. Very little is known about the life of Euclid. Both the dates and places of his birth and death are unknown. The best estimation is that he was born around...
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Director Of The Academy Lagrange
658 wordsJoseph-Louis Lagrange Joseph-Louis Lagrange was born on January 25, 1736 in Turin, Sardinia-Piedmont (which is now known as Italy). He studied at the College of Turin where his favorite subject was classic Latin. After reading Halley's 1693 work on the use of algebra in optics Lagrange became very interested in mathematics and astronomy. Unfortunately for Lagrange he did not have the benefit of studying with the leading mathematicians, so he became self-motivated and was self-taught. Then in 175...
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Contributions To The Study Of Mathematics
2,813 wordsAbstract Women in the world of mathematics is a subject that people rarely hear about. The only time people do is if its a female math teacher. But what many do not know is that women have made extremely important contributions to the world of mathematics. Women have been documented to be involved in mathematics, since as early as the fifth century A.D. Women such as Hypatia, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Emmy Noether, Ruth Moufang and Sun-Yung Alice Chang. These women have lived through...
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Mathematics After Johann Bernoulli
598 wordsLeonhard Euler Euler made large bounds in modern analytic geometry and trigonometry. He made decisive and formative contributions to geometry, calculus and number theory. Born: 15 April 1707 in Basel, Switzerland Died: 18 Sept 1783 in St Petersburg, Russia Introduction Euler's father wanted his son to follow him into the church and sent him to the University of Basel to prepare for the ministry. However geometry soon became his favourite subject. Euler obtained his father's consent to change to ...
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400 B.C. Pythagoras And His Followers
521 wordsThe Pythagorean theory is probably more widely known than any other complex mathematical idea. The theorem was first used by the Eygptians, but they had no mathematical proof that the idea was correct. Pythagoras is credited with being the first to prove the theorem. The Pythagorean theorem, which is important in all technology, proved that the sum of the squares on the short two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. (A right triangle has one angle of 90 degrees.) P...
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Credit For His Mathematical Discoveries
890 wordsThe first thing I would like to say before I start this paper on Thales is that when dealing with ancient Greek mathemetitions, any "facts" you may uncover are really just educated guesses. The reason for this is, because all records back then were kept on cuneiform tablets. These tablets just did not hold up well over time, and were destroyed before anyone could really make a lasting, permanent record of his life and studies. (2) With this being said, let me share with you some of my findings o...
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
502 wordsCarl Friedrich Gauss Kevin Jean-Charles August 10, 1996 Seq. Math Course 2 Period 1&2 This report is on Carl Friedrich Gauss. Gauss was a German scientist and mathematician. People call him the founder of modern mathematics. He also worked in astronomy and physics. His work in astronomy and physics is nearly as significant as that in mathematics. Gauss also worked in crystallography, optics, bio statistics, and Making mechanics. Gauss was born on April 30, 1777 in Brunswick. Brunswick is what is...
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Beginning Of The Mathematical State Of Mind
1,280 wordsMathematics, the language of the universe, is one of the largest fields of study in the world today. With the roots of the math tree beginning in simple mathematics such as, one digit plus one digit, and one digit minus one digit, the tree of mathematics comes together in the more complex field of algebra to form the true base of calculations as the trunk. As we get higher, branches begin to form creating more specialized forms of numerical comprehension and schools of mathematical thought. Some...
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John Taylor
667 wordsBrook Taylor Mathematician Biographical Sketch 4/2/01 Shannon Pringle Born: August 18, 1685; Edmonton, Middlesex, England. Died: December 29, 1731; Somerset House, London, England. Brook Taylor was born into a fairly wealthy family on the fringes of nobility. His father, John Taylor, was the son of Nathaniel Taylor - a member of Oliver Cromwell's Assembly. His mother, Olivia Tempest, was the daughter of Sir John Tempest. Taylor was brought up in a household where his father ruled as a strict dis...
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Diophantus Work Algebra
1,412 wordsAlgebra is defined by Websters New Collegiate Dictionary as a generalization of arithmetic in which letters representing numbers are combined according to the rules of arithmetic. This is not a good definition of algebra. It would take a thick book to really explain it. In fact, to this day it is still being added to. There are always new things to be discovered about it. It has been added to by many different people over the centuries. Algebra has a long interesting history. The first work desc...
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Ramanujan's Work
1,706 wordsSrinivas a Ramanujan was one of India's greatest mathematical geniuses. He made contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series. Ramanujan was born in his grandmother's house in Erode on December 22, 1887. When Ramanujan was a year old his mother took him to the town of Kumbakonam, near Madras. His father worked in Kumbakonam as a clerk in a cloth merchant's shop. When he was five years old, Ramanujan went to the primar...
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Development Of Many Other Branches Of Mathematics
1,201 wordsBefore the time of recorded history, prehistoric people learned to count such things as the animals in their herds and flocks. They probably first used their fingers or pebbles to help keep track of small numbers. They learned to use the length of their hands and arms and other standards of measure. And they learned to use regular shapes when they molded pottery and chipped stone arrowheads. Since the prehistoric times, mathematics has come a long way. In this essay, I will try to sum up the dev...
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Karl Gauss
670 wordsKarl Gauss: Biography Karl Gauss lived from 1777 to 1855. He was a German mathematician, physician, and astronomer. He was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on April 30th, 1777. His family was poor and uneducated. His father was a gardener and a merchant's assistant. At a young age, Gauss taught himself how to read and count, and it is said that he spotted a mistake in his father's calculations when he was only three. Throughout the rest of his early schooling, he stood out remarkably from the rest...
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Research At The Time Fields Institute
820 wordsJohn Charles Fields John Charles Fields is perhaps one of the most famous Canadian Mathematicians of all time. He was born on May 14, 1863 in Hamilton Ontario, and died August 9, 1932 in Toronto, Ontario (Young, 1998). He graduated from the University of Toronto at the age of 21 with a B. A in Mathematics and went on to get his Ph. D. at John Hopkins University in 1887. Fields was very interested to study at John Hopkins University because apparently it was the only university in North America w...
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Charles Babbage Charles Babbage
754 wordsCharles Babbage Charles Babbage may have spent his life in vain, trying to make a machine considered by most of his friends to be ridiculous. 150 years ago, Babbage drew hundreds of drawings projecting the fundamentals on which today's computers are founded. But the technology was not there to meet his dreams. He was born on December 26, 1791, in Totnes, Devonshire, England. As a child he was always interested about the mechanics of everything and in the supernatural. He reportedly once tried to...
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Equal Number Of Members As The Set
2,199 wordsGeorg Cantor founded set theory and introduced the concept of infinite numbers with his discovery of cardinal numbers. He also advanced the study of trigonometric series and was the first to prove the nondenumerability of the real numbers. Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 3, 1845. His family stayed in Russia for eleven years until the father's sickly health forced them to move to the more acceptable environment of Frankfurt, Germany, the place wh...
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Sonya's Career
1,130 wordsSonya Kovalevsky was born on January 15, 1850 in Moscow, Russia. She grew up in a very intellectual family. Her father was a military officer and a landholder; her mother was the granddaughter of a famous Russian astronomer and an accomplished musician. She grew up living a lavish life, and was first educated by her uncle, who read her fairy tales, taught her chess, and talked about mathematics. She even bumped into the subject of trigonometry while studying elementary physics. She achieved all ...
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Leonardos Contributions To Mathematics
431 wordsLeonardo Fibonacci was born in Pisa, Italy around 1175 to Guglielmo Bon acci. Leonardos father was the secretary of the Republic of Pisa and directed the Pisan trading colony. His father intended on Leonardo becoming a merchant. His father enlisted him in the Pisan Republic, sending him to various countries. As Leonardo continued to travel with his father, he acquired mathematical skills while in Bug ia. Fibonacci continued to study throughout his travels, which ended around the year 1200. Leona...
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Hypatia Of Alexandria
740 words"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all". Hypatia of Alexandria not only was a famous mathematician, astronomer, but also the first woman to make a considerable contribution to the world of mathematicians. Hypatia spent her life living up her deep passion for knowledge. Being the daughter of Theon, one of the most educated men in Alexandria, she was surrounded by knowledge from her birth. From her father she developed curiosity, inquisition, and...
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Chinese And American Elementary Mathematics Teachers
583 wordsMathematics is an essential language used in science to quantitatively describe natural and social phenomena and to expand systematic thinking. Faced with the increasing complexity of modern society, particularly in the 21st century, the scope of mathematical applications is being further extended to the processing, analysis, and preparation of diverse information. Therefore, capable mathematicians and research manpower well trained in mathematical thinking are in critical need, as the global co...
