Syracuse {draw:frame} Archimedes of Syracuse (287 BC – c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Archimedes is generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. He used the method of exhaustion to...
Age Isaac Newton He was born on December 25, 1642 He was famous for Newton’s method for estimating roots of a function He was a student at Trinity College in Cambridge Isaac Newton is one of the most celebrated and recognized mathematicians and physicists in world history. Newton went on to publish...
Michael Umphrey Mathematics: Mr. Hokenburg George Boole My favorite Mathematician is George Boole . He was born on November 2nd in 1815 in the English industrial town of Lincoln, His father loved to do math. He was really good at math and at age 8 was smarter than his dad. A family friend...
Archimedes Archimedes was born in a seaport city of Syracuse called the Sicily Magna Graecia. He is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians to have lived. He had also invented things, designed machines. Archimedes was also a scientist but math was his most important skill. Archimedes...
Jacob Jacobi was a mathematician who was born December 10, 1804 in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia. He studied at the University of Berlin and became a Doctor of Philosophy, in 1825. He is recognized as an inspiring teacher of mathematics and he was one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Jacobi...
divisor of two numbers, and is credited with the well-known proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. Euclid of Alexandria is the most prominent mathematician of antiquity best known for his treatise on mathematics The Elements. The lengthy nature of The Elements must make Euclid the leading mathematics...
Euclid also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria was born on 325-B.C. and died on 265 B.C. Euclid was a Greek mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Hellenistic Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 BC–283 BC), is often considered to be the "Father of Geometry". He is considered...
only productive way of learning. Is it possible for people to educate themselves without help or support from others? Can self-taught people become famous and successful? In my opinion, people can learn without schools and tutors. You can read books, speak to educated people or spend a lot of time in...
John studied chemistry in university in 1921 and received his diploma in Chemical Engineering in 1925. Von Neumann proved to be a brilliant young mathematician. Between 1922 and 1927, he produced eighteen major mathematical articles. Much of his early research can best be described as a response to Hilbert's...
Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal is a famous mathematician famously known for his works involving the ideas speculating around geometry, probability and discovering new properties of the Arithmetical triangle and solving problems using it. Pascal was born June 19, 1623 in Clermont France to his parents Etienne...
Some famous Victorian authors are Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray. Modern age literature (modernism) was during the 1890's through the 1940's. The literature focused on moving towards modern Western ideas, religion, social conventions, and morality. Some famous modern...
fed by nationalistic tendencies in England and Germany. Newton made contributions to all branches of mathematics then studied, but is especially famous for his solutions to the contemporary problems in analytical geometry of drawing tangents to curves (differentiation) and defining areas bounded by...
Aristotle were almost entirely devoid of mathematics. The first Greek exposition of a mathematical theory of vision was in the Optica by the great mathematician Euclid, author of the Elements, perhaps the most influential textbook in the history of mathematics. Scholar Victor J. Katz in A History of Mathematics...
promised attending on her final hour. He went in search of a guru for further spiritual guidance and studied under Govinda Bhagavatpada, who was a famous disciple of the great saint Gowdapadacharya. Gowdapadacharya advocated monism or advaita. All the learning Shankara mastered was put to use through...
any one. By developing a good characteristic personality can make a person famous by building them self confidence and internal energy. Therefore personality does not just make a person famous but it also develops the entire human qualities and action to make them be...
vision in his era. Among the things he was most famous for was the rediscovery of the Kaleidoscope. Although the Kaleidoscope was not his most significant discovery by far, such a craze surrounded it’s reintroduction to the world that he remained famous for it for quite a while. Unfortunately, though...
Hartwell A Chronology of Bible and World Events on the following pages gives you a visual overview of events in Bible times as compared to other famous world events. (The timelines in the individual Bible books are different - focusing on the events occurring in the books themselves.) This particular...
philosophers, astronomers, physicists, mathematicians, and other scientific discoverers. It is Galileo's contribution to the Revolution that left one of the most everlasting and most important contribution to the Revolution. The Italian and Catholic mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Galileo was...
Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was a mathematician and physicist, and he was one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. He was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he attended school. He entered Cambridge university in1661. During 2 to 3 years of intense mental...
Sierpinski Investigation Waclaw Franciszek Sierpinski was a famous Polish Mathematician who made many innovations in Math. His work is used to this day as a foundation for many current mathematical theories. His most compelling work was with set theories, number theories, theories of functions, and...
Last of all, Orphans when supported by community organisations and volunteers grow up themselves to be contributing members of the society! Many famous personalities were either orphaned at birth or as a child. Aristotle a well-known Greek philosopher, polymath, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander...
idealism. He was a self educated man that was a gallant soldier and public servant. He was imprisoned in 1603 where he began to write one of his most famous works, Don Quixote. Cervantes wrote the book with the intention of ridiculing the popular chivalric ideas of the time. However, Cervantes came to admire...
which a^2 + b^2 = c^2. This is the relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of a triangle. This theorem is named after an Ionian Greek mathematician and philosopher by the name of Pythagoras of Samos, conveniently enough. Although this theorem was evident to the Babylonians a thousand years before...
Pablo Picasso was a famous artist of the twentieth century. He was born Pablo Blasco on October, 25th 1881, in Malaga, Spain. Born to, José Ruiz Blasco and Maria Picasso, from whom he acquired his, surname Picasso. His father Jose was a professor for the school of Arts and Crafts and his mother Maria...
obsessed with getting evaluated by friends. ) Body A. Firstly, Facebook does not allow us to have time for ourselves. 1. One of the famous mathematician and philosophy Blaise Pascal left a quote ““All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone”. 2. It...
could do all our work A Brief History Robotics has been incorporated into our lives since 350 BC. It was 350 BC when Archytas, a famous mathematician, built a mechanical bird he called “The Pigeon.” “The Pigeon” was steam powered. It was a great introduction to robotics and technology. Also...
scientific view. Thales (624-547 BC) was a Philosopher born in the Greek City of Miletus across the Aegean Sean from the Greek mainland. He became famous for predicting an eclipse in 585 BC. He asked questions like where did the Universe come from? How did it come to be? He believed that all things either...
Meditations. Descartes was not only a philosopher but also a natural scientist who was interested in physics and physiology. Above all he was a great mathematician. He treated mathematics as an instrument of science. This thought profoundly influenced Descartes’ philosophical thinking. He thought that mathematics...
Wheat and chessboard problem The inventor of chess, an Indian mathematician showed the leader of his country his game (chess) and so the leader of the country asked him what he would like in return for this creation. The smart mathematician told his ruler that for the first square of the chess board he...
depression, low self-esteem, anxiety and stress. HELP THEM WITH THIS!! Famous dyslexics from history: • Albert Einstein -did not begin to read until he was nine, but by the age of twelve was a brilliant mathematician and physicist. He failed his first attempt at entrance into college and lost...
Galileo Galilee (15 February 1564[2] – 8 January 1642)[1][3] was a Tuscan physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism...
Professor of Mathematics at the Protestant seminary in Graz, located in the Austrian province of Styria, having also been appointed as district mathematician and calendar maker. Kepler remained in Graz until 1600, when all Protestants were forced to convert to Catholicism or leave the province, a result...
is not real.” Hobbes was the most complete philosopher of materialism of the 17th century. (Oregon State University, 2008) Along with famous mathematicians and scientists such as Galileo, Hobbes’s conclusion on materialism was that all matter derives from material particles and that all change reduces...
to the right of the decimal point, and in the number .123456789123456789123456789... the sequence 123456789 is repeated. However, although many mathematicians have tried to find it, no repeating pattern for pi has been discovered - in fact, in 1768 Johann Lambert proved that there cannot be any such repeating...
phi ratio.18 Thus reasonably and logically one can perceive that math is based on fundamentals which are experimented upon and proven by many famous mathematicians such as Aristotle and others. When I had a doubt in maths class about the priciples of circular trigonometry, my teacher explained and proved...
circumference) of a circle? A: pi ARRR squared! (or two pi ARRRR!) Q: How does a pirate write 1/3 as a decimal? A: point three bARRRR! Q: What famous pirate mathematician calculated pi? A: ARRRRchemides! Pi-Rate Song 3 point 1 4 (to the tune of 'yo ho yo ho') 3 point 1 4 a pi-rate's life for me We calculate...
period and even in Galileo's own writings. Be that it as it may, this is certainly no distraction from his great achievements for during this era many famous personages were not always as they had spoken or wished themselves to be, fluctuating in and out of the ideas, beliefs and enforcement of canon or...
ancestries for the heliocentric system. In the Axioms Scholium of his Principia Newton said its axiomatic three laws of motion were already accepted by mathematicians such as Huygens (1629–1695), Wallace, Wren and others, and also in memos in his draft preparations of the second edition of the Principia he attributed...
system by the public. Interestingly, there was some controversy surrounding the publication. During the proofreading process, Andreas Osiander ( a mathematician and Lutheran pastor ( modified Copernicus's preface, supposedly after obtaining his permission to do so, by anonymo usly stating, "For these hypotheses...
at the top of this page. Madame (Marie) Curie 1867 - 1934 Marya Salomee Sklodowdka nick named Manya better know to by Marie, became the world famous Madame Curie. She spent many years in France hence the name change, but was born in Poland of Polis descent from the city of Warsaw, on November 7...
1D1 Friday February 11, 2010 Famous or Infamous: Are today’s Famous People good role models for Young People? These days as people are flipping through the pages of a magazine, listening to the radio, or simply watching TV, the outrageous behaviour of today’s famous people are showcased everywhere...
interest in Mathematics is shown in his second work, A Short Treatise on First Principles. When he traveled to France, he met some of the most famous mathematicians of his time, Rene Descartes and Pierre Gassendi. He got to know them on a personal basis. While in Florence, Italy, he spent time and talked...
culture he or she specialised in, and every writer, whatever his literary approach, and every mathematician, scientist or artisan, would debate and articulate Islam due to this clash. Many scholars became famous for science like Muhammad b. al-Hasan in mathematics, Ibn Batutah in geography, Ibn al-Athir...
Aristotle spent nearly 20 years at Plato's Academy, first as a student and then as a teacher. After Plato's death he travelled widely and educated a famous pupil, Alexander the Great, the Macedonian who nearly conquered the world. Later Aristotle began his own school in Athens, known as the Lyceum. Aristotle...
expected of her. Cleopatra was in fact the first person of her family to learn and fluently speak the native Egyptian language. She was a vivid mathematician and shrewd business woman. From young ages, Cleopatra was known to be constantly studying Greek literature, philosophy and allegedly spoke various...
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“Is being famous always good?” “It’s all make believe, isn’t it?” -Marilyn Monroe- In reality, being famous may not always be positive. There are the downsides to it as well. For instance, famous people and celebrities have to constantly endure the pressure of upholding a perfect image. Just...
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below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the answer from the given options: 5 Marks Coded Messages Arabic mathematicians made tremendous contributions to cryptanalysis — the science of decoding scrambled messages. Their interest stemmed partially from their religion...
up in flight were fatal. Parachutes were well-developed by 1918, and were adopted by the German flying services during the course of that year (the famous "Red Baron" was wearing one when he was killed), but the allied command continued to oppose their use, on various grounds. Jet-powered fighters It...
Pinter — The Nobel prize winning British Playwright. 3. Samuel P. Huntington — A famous political scientist known for his views on clash of civilizations. 4. Jade Goody — A dental surgeon by profession and a world famous reality show artist. 5. Henry Allingham — World’s oldest man 6. Les Paul — A guitar...
age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow." Many physicists subscribe to the famous dictum of T. H. White, who wrote in The Once and Future King, "Anything that is not forbidden, is mandatory!" In physics we find evidence of this all...
navigation, search For historical changes in economies, see Economic history. For different groupings of economists, see Schools of economic thought. For famous economists, see List of economists. Economics | GDP per capita by country (World Bank, 2011) | General classifications | * Microeconomics...
advancements to the modern societies of the world. Rome particularly excelled in things military, while Greece fostered genius philosophers and mathematicians. These two geographical neighbors have influenced American society far more than any other nations. Recreation encompassed a large portion...
Famous Thinkers The two famous thinkers in the week four Electronic Reserve Readings are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Gates. Each had separate aspirations and both men contributed a significant amount of growth in the Twentieth Century. Bill Gates and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have gone “down...
Movie: Almost Famous Genre: Comedy Style: Verisimilitude Theme: Coming of age in the world of rock and roll; the time in life when the world tilts. Famous quote- From Lester Bangs (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman), a very influential person in the director’s early development as a music writer:...
Vietnam War in 1965, at this time 61% of Americans agreed with the war. However as the war started the support started to many famous people opposed the Vietnam War, these famous people would be the most noticeable and they would get more press coverage than regular protesters. Celebrities showed their...
This was known as Menelaus's theorem which formed the foundation of trigonometry studies for the next 3 centuries. Around the same period, Indian mathematicians created the trigonometry system based on the sine function instead of the chords. Note that this was not seen to be ratio but rather the opposite...
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John Keats was one of the most famous English poets of the Romantic Movement. His personal life had a considerable effect on his work, as well as the social and political events of the time, “time of upheaval in all quarters a time of new political thinking, of social and humanitarian reform, a revolutionary...