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Mathematicians Making Numerous Contributions
1,775 wordsMAT 1000 College Mathematics Mathematicians: Making numerous contributions By Bonnie Join Presented to Professor Combs A paper presented to Florida Technical College in partial fulfillment Of the requirements for the Associate of Science Degree Presented on 12 / 17 / 2001 Title Mathematicians: Making numerous contributions Thesis Statement This report will focus on the professional field of mathematicians. It will highlight some of the history, responsibilities, opportunities, and requirements o...
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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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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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1,945 wordsGalileo Galilei was an astronomer and mathematician, he was, a man ahead of his time. Galileodiscovered the law of uniformly accelerated motion towards the Earth, the parabolic path of projectiles, and the law that all bodies have weight. Among his other accomplishments was the improvement of the refracting telescope in 1610 and his advocacy of the Copernican theory which brought him into a conflict ideas and truths between himself and the Inquisition. He was condemned by the church whose theori...
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Cycles Per Second Charles Babbage
2,421 wordsDEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS OVER THE DECADES What is a computer? A Computer is an electronic device that can receive a set of instructions, or program, and then carry out this program by performing calculations on numerical data or by compiling and correlating other forms of information. Thesis Statement: - The modern world of high technology could not have come about except for the development of the computer. Different types and sizes of computers find uses throughout society in the storage and h...
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2,128 wordsWhile Descartes was laying the foundations of analytical geometry, the same subject was occupying the attention of another and not less distinguished Frenchman. This was Pierre de Fermat, who was born near Montauban in 1601, and died at Castres on January 12, 1665. Fermat was the son of a leather-merchant, growing up being educated at home. He earned himself a name later in his life by making contacts with some of the most important people in mathematics during that time period. In this paper I ...
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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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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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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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Academy Of Science Leonhard Euler
730 wordsLeonhard Euler was one of top mathematicians of the eighteenth century and the greatest mathematician to come out of Switzerland. He made numerous contributions to almost every mathematics field and was the most prolific mathematics writer of all time. It was said, Euler calculated without apparent effort, as men breathe. His peers dubbed him Analysis Incarnate for his incredible ability. Leonhard Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland, on April 15, 1707. His father, a Calvinist pastor and former ...
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5,384 wordsMay People Evelyn Boyd Granville May 1, 1924 My Life as a Mathematician, by Evelyn Boyd Granville This article originally appeared in SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, Vol 6, No. 2 (Fall 1989), p 44 - 46. It is copyrighted by Sage Womens Educational Press, Inc. , and is reproduced with their permission and the permission of Professor Evelyn Granville. Fortunately for me as I was growing up, I never heard the theory that females arent equipped mentally to succeed in mathematics, and my ge...
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1,339 wordsThe History of Pi A little known verse in the bible reads? And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other; it was round all about, and his height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it about (I Kings 7, 23). ? This passage from the bible demonstrates the ancient nature of the irrational number pi. Pi in fact is mentioned in a number of verses throughout the bible. In II Chronicles 4, 2, in the passage describing the building of the great temple of Solomo...
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1,534 wordsMichael Stifel Michael Stifel was a German mathematician who lived in the late fifteenth century and early to mid-sixteenth century. He was born in 1487, in Esslingen, Germany. The exact date of his birth is unknown. Stifel died on April 19, 1567, in Jena, Germany. His father was Conrad Stifel, a well-respected member of the community. When Michael was young his family did not have much money. Not much is known about Stifel's life until the time he attended the University of Wittenberg, in Germa...
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