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Le Monde 2 Years
745 wordsThis one thing [analytic geometry] is of the highest order of excellence, marked by the sensuous simplicity of the half dozen or so greatest contributions of all time to mathematics. Descartes remade geometry and made modern geometry possible. Rene Descartes was the third child of a well off noble family. His mother died a few days after his birth, and he was a frail child. Because of this poor health, his father mostly let Ren do as he wished, but at the age of 8 he was sent to a Jesuit "colleg...
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Blaise Pascal Fathers Death
1,974 wordsBlaise Pascal By Victoria Hubble Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on June 19 th, 1623. His mother, Antoinette Been, died when he was three; and his father, Etienne, who was a local judge with a scientific reputation, brought him up. Etienne Pascal retired and moved to Paris in 1631 to concentrate on his own scientific research and to take care of his son, Blaise, and his two daughters, Gilbert and Jacqueline. Etienne had unorthodox views of education and decided to tutor his o...
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A History Of Geometry In The World Mathematics
425 wordsThe beginning of geometry is hidden in the time of pre-history. Later, the humans came to recognize certain principles. People believe geometry started in Egypt. Ancient Greeks also practiced experimental geometry for centuries. During the Ancient Greece time period Euclid wrote thirteen books, entitled The Elements, that are still today one of the most influential works in scientific history. In Ancient Egyptians time geometry was used often. One use for geometry was to measure the size of fiel...
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Pre Columbian Geometric Shapes
1,000 words19 December 2007 Geometry in Pre-Columbian Cultures in the Americas Euclidean Geometry usually comes to mind first, when we speak about geometry. People often forget that much of modern geometry was inherited from our pre-Columbian cultures, especially from the Aztecs, the Incas, and the Mayas. Geometry was integrated into almost all aspects of our pre-Columbian cultures life, such as the daily activities, shape of buildings and streets, the design of their cities, as well as weavings and cerami...
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Straight Lines Great Impact
2,004 wordsEuclid's Elements Introduction to the works of Euclid and Euclid's Life Euclid's name is often associated with geometry. Euclid's Elements is one of the most influential and important scientific works in the history of mathematics. This work had served as the fundamental basics for the vast majority of geometrical teachings for the past 20 centuries. Euclid has made great impact on mathematics and set the standard for logical structure for works in the field of geometry. Unfortunately, there is ...
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Rene Descartes Analytic Geometry
765 wordsRene' Descartes was born in La Haye, Touraine (a former province of France) March 31, 1596. He spent all of his childhood in France. His father was a minor nobleman and councillor of the Parliament of Brittany, his title was noblesse de la robe. Descartes mother was not as predominate as her husband but she was quite wealthy. The nationality of both his parents is French. His religion was Roman Catholic. In 1606 at the age of eight Descartes enrolled in the Jesuit college of La Flesh in Anjou, t...
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X And Y Le Monde
3,527 wordsRen Descartes (1596 1650) From 'A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (4 th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. We may consider Descartes as the first of the modern school of mathematics. Ren Descartes was born near Tours on March 31, 1596, and died at Stockholm on February 11, 1650; thus he was a contemporary of Galileo and Desargues. His father, who, as the name implies, was of good family, was accustomed to spend half the year at Rennes when the local parliament, in which he held a co...
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Fractal Geometry Fractal Geometry Fractal Geometry Fractal Fractals
583 wordsFractal Fractal Geometry Fractal Geometry Fractal geometry is a branch of mathematics having to do with fractals. Fractals are geometric figures, just like rectangles, circles and squares, but fractals have special properties that those figures do not have. In geometry two figures are similar if their corresponding angles are congruent in measure. Fractals are self-similar meaning that at every level the fractal image repeats itself. An example of self-similarity would be a triangle made up of t...
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Funk 038 Wagnalls Euclidean Geometry
1,790 wordsGeometry Geometry Differences in Geometry Geometry is the branch of mathematics that deals with the properties of space. Geometry is classified between two separate branches, Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry. Being based off different postulates, theorems, and proofs, Euclidean Geometry deals mostly with two-dimensional figures, while Demonstrative, Analytic, Descriptive, Conic, Spherical, Hyperbolic, are Non-Euclidean, dealing with figures containing more than two-dimensions. The main diffe...
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Pythagorean Theorem Geometric Shapes
491 wordsGeometry was actually first used in ancient Egypt and Babylon at around 2000 BC in both cases. In order for the Egyptians to build such massive structures as the pyramids they had to have made plans for them prior to the actually building, in these plans geometry had to be used. On ancient Babylonian tablets there is evidence that they understood the Pythagorean theorem. The so-called father of Geometry is Euclid a Greek mathematician. He wrote The Elements, books of postulates and theorems, whi...
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Mathematical Analysis B C
1,141 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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17 Th Century 19 Th Century
2,992 wordsHistory of Math Mathematics, study of relationships among quantities, magnitudes, and properties and of logical operations by which unknown quantities, magnitudes, and properties may be deduced. In the past, mathematics was regarded as the science of quantity, whether of magnitudes, as in geometry, or of numbers, as in arithmetic, or of the generalization of these two fields, as in algebra. Toward the middle of the 19 th century, however, mathematics came to be regarded increasingly as the scien...
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19 Th Century 17 Th Century
4,866 wordsMathematics, study of relationships among quantities, magnitudes, and properties and of logical operations by which unknown quantities, magnitudes, and properties may be deduced. In the past, mathematics was regarded as the science of quantity, whether of magnitudes, as in geometry, or of numbers, as in arithmetic, or of the generalization of these two fields, as in algebra. Toward the middle of the 19 th century, however, mathematics came to be regarded increasingly as the science of relations,...
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J Nos Bolyai Royal Engineering College Work
582 wordsJ nos Bolyai Back in 19 th century, two extremely intelligent mathematicians, the Hungarian J nos Bolyai and the Russian Nicolai Lobechevsky, showed that one could throw out Euclid s parallel postulate and come up with a weird yet consistent form of geometry. J nos Bolyai was a great man that helped further the exploration of geometry and math. J nos was born on December 15, 1802 in Kolozsv r, Hungary. This place is now referred to as Cluj, Romania. His father was known as Farkas Bolyai. J nos w...
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Washington D C Major Part
1,092 wordsMath and many of its aspects are a major part of everyday life. We spend the majority of our school years studying and learning the concepts of it. Many times, the question of? why do we need to know these things? ? has been asked. The following report will explain the history and purpose of geometry in our lives. ? Geometry? means? measure of the earth? . In ancient Egypt, the Nile would flood its banks each year, flooding the land and destroying the farm areas. When the waters receded and the ...
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Southern Italy 20 Years
3,095 wordsPythagoras of Samos is often described as the first pure mathematician. He is an extremely important figure in the development of mathematics yet we know relatively little about his mathematical achievements. Unlike many later Greek mathematicians, where at least we have some of the books which they wrote, we have nothing of Pythagoras writings. The society which he led, half religious and half scientific, followed a code of secrecy which certainly means that today Pythagoras is a mysterious fig...
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