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1,269 wordsBernard Bolzano was a philosopher and mathematician whose contributions were not truly recognized until long after his death. He is especially important in the fields of logic geometry and the theory or real numbers. Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano was born in Prague, Bohemia, (which is now part of the Czech Republic), on October 5, 1781 as the fourth child out of twelve children. His mother was a German-speaking native of Prague, his father a dealer in small wares from Northern Italy ...
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Thirty Years War Tycho Brahe
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F Scott Fitzgerald Zelda Sayre
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Decimal Places Infinite Series
756 wordsBiography of the Mathematician Madhava of Sangamagramma (1350 - 1425) is a well-known Indian mathematician who made great impact on the development of Calculus. He was born in 1350 in Sangamagramma in Kerala state in the southwestern part of India. Madhava invented the ideas of Taylor series, Maclaurin series, Power series, trigonometric series, infinite series, and gave formulae for? that leads to the approximation 3. 14159265359. He is also considered the founder of mathematical analysis becau...
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Father In Law Form Of Government
1,888 words... was one of the utmost importance to the new country and with over 1000 men under his orders Hamilton felt that his was the most important department of the government and that he was the most important person after the president. When the new government had established the Treasury and its Treasurer they had merely wanted a financial expert to balance the books. Instead they got Hamilton, a man who felt the need to take the whole field of government as his battle ground. He supervised the pa...
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1,609 wordsIntroduction -Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet and writer was given the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 because of his outstanding contribution to literature. -His contribution reaches far from different poems, prose's, plays, translations and limited editions and booklets (Poetry and prose). Body -Biography -Early Life -Career - 1995 Nobel Prize acceptance speech -Irish Resistance history -Punishment poem -Connection between Biography, Irish Resistance history, and the poem Conclusion -Because of...
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Rose For Emily Story Of An Hour
1,962 words... Homers and Emily's death represented the Norths and Souths failure to comprise which caused angst and resentment. What was Faulkner, a lifelong resident of the South, trying to imply by symbolizing the North in Homer Barron as uneducated, blue-collared worker and the South in the town of Jefferson as proper and traditional? Perhaps it is reflective of social classes. This happens as long as society alienates man from man resentment and antagonism abound. Going back to Chopin, there are three...
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Friends And Family One Of America
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University Of Minnesota Pulitzer Prize
1,798 wordsJoel Athens BERRYMAN was born John Allyn Smith, Jr. , in McAlester, Oklahoma, the son of John Allyn Smith, a banker, and Martha Little, formerly a schoolteacher. The family moved frequently, finally settling in Tampa, Florida, where his father speculated in land, failed, and in 1926 committed suicide. Three months later his mother married John Mc Alpin Berryman, whose name was given to the son. The new family moved to New York City, but hard times followed the 1929 stock market crash; young John...
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State Of Georgia Cherokee Nation
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr Dictionary Of Literary
529 wordsKurt Vonnegut Jr. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , was born November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana (Dictionary of Literary Biography). Kurt is often known for his science-fiction writing. He often uses space travel and technology within his novels (World Book Encyclopedia). Vonnegut attended Cornell University from 1940 to 1942. Next, he attended the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1947. He was awarded a masters degree in 1971 in anthropology. Also in 1945, he was wed to Jane Marie Cox. Kurt and Jane...
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Natural Born Killers Quentin Tarantino
1,139 wordsBiography for Quentin Tarantino Nickname QT Mini biography In January of 1991 a film titled Reservoir Dogs (1992) hit the Sundance Film festival. The writer director was a first timer by the name of Quentin Tarantino. The film garnered critical acclaim and the director became a legend in the England, UK and the cult film circuit. Three years later he followed up Dogs with the film Pulp Fiction (1994). Pulp premiered at the Cannes film festival, where it won the coveted Palme DOr the virtual equa...
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