| - I have listed Mendeleev’s other achievements and explained how these have influenced the society we live in today.(Presentation is OUTSTANDING).…
Use the following web sites to match the mathematicians with the fact about his/her life. Good luck!!!…
Leonardo do Pisa’s influence on mathematics has been by and large unnoticed except for his role is broadening the use of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. Leonardo is primarily known for the Fibonacci sequence which is a derivative of a mathematical problem from the Liber Abaci:…
Considered to be the most influential mathematician prior to Sir Isaac Newton, John Wallis was born in 1616 in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of Reverend John Wallis. At first locally educated, Wallis was first introduced to Math while at school in Felsted, Essex. At the time, however, Math was not considered a primary academic study. Enrolling in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Wallis' plan was to become a Doctor but, after graduating, he went on to obtain his Masters degree in 1640, before becoming a Priest. Wallis was elected to a fellowship at Queen’s College, Cambridge in 1644 but resigned the following year after his marriage to Susanna Glyde.…
V.S. Ramachandran, in his TED talk entitled “Three Clues to Understanding Your Brain,” states that we can better understand and learn about the functions of our brain by studying patients who have suffered damage to a small region on their brain. The first example he uses to support his idea is the Capgras delusion. People who suffer from this syndrome don’t have any emotions when they see something of importance to them. For example, when a normal person sees their mother, they would get some sort of emotional response but a person with Capgras delusion won’t get any response and even negate the fact that it is their mother. The cause of this is due to the fact that the connection between the visual areas and emotional centers is cut. His second example is his experiments with patients who have a syndrome called phantom limb and experience paralysis and pain in their phantom limb. What he found out was the paralysis in his patients’ phantom limbs were actually learned because before the patients had their limbs amputated, their limbs were paralyzed and the brain was sending messages to move but it would get visually messages that the limb wasn’t moving; thus the learned paralysis would get carried over to the phantom limb. What he did to cure his patients’ from phantom limb and the paralysis was put a mirror reflecting their adjacent limb and told them to move it around. What this does is create a conflict between the vision sensory and the muscles signals, so the brain just ignores them both making the phantom limb and pain disappear. Then Ramachandran goes on to talk about synesthesia. Synesthesia is when a person hears a sound and associates a color to it or when a person sees a number and associates a color to it. He said this happens because the areas for color and the areas for sound are next to each other and they are wired together. He also stated all of us are born with everything in the brain…
The name of our mathematician is Aristotle, he was born in 384 BCE at Stagirus, a Greek colony that is now extinct near the seaport on the coast of Thrace. He was the son of Phaestis and Nichomachus, who was a court physician to the King Amyntas of Macedonia. Many people claim this is where Aristotle got influenced to become part of the Macedamian Court system, although is has not yet been proving plenty of experts agree this is where it all began. While he was around the age of 7 his father and mother died and he became under the care of Proxenus of Arteneus, this was his sisters husband.…
very logic man who love math and enjoy taking picture. He died in January 14, 1898 after leaving his great book because he inspires me so much because he left a really good point to his books.…
Selecting from the following topics and readings, create a research essay of 900 to 1,000 words.…
Brahmagupta was a mathematician, and an astronomer who wrote what is referred to as “works”; a lot of which contributes to what students in America may be learning today. Originally from India, Brahmagupta was able to connect mathematics and an astronomy to the science and math studied under Islamic law, and in other cultures as well. He was able to provide properties to the number system that defined results which was beyond what others were teaching. Brahmagupta is credited for linking math and astronomy which other systems, and the establishment of most basic and complexed math that we are taught.…
Boyer, Carl. A History of Mathematics: 2nd Edition. New York, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1968…
References: Lewinter, M., & Widulski, W. (2002)/ The sage of mathematics: A brief history. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall/Pearson…
Have you ever felt that people mistreated you so badly, just because you looked and acted differently? The story written from by Santha Rama Rau “by any other name” Focuses on two indian sisters named Permila and Santha who are at a new Anglo-indian school who faces the exact same thing. They’re enrolled in this british school because of their mother getting ill. Also the two sisters tried to adjust to their new school, but because they were indian they faced so much conflicts. One of them being having their names changed to an english one, so it would be simpler for everyone in the school to remember.…
Maharj, Rabindranth with Dave Hunt (2004). Death of a Guru London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd…
Diophantus was a Greek mathematician that lived in Alexandria in the 3rd Century. His estimated birth and passing years are said to be from 150 B.C. to 350 A.D. Although there is not enough information about his life, there is a riddle that estimates how long he lived. The mathematic puzzle is known as ‘Diophantus Riddle’. The riddle states he married while he was 33, then he had a son who lived for 42 years and the total years Diophantus lived according to the riddle was a total of 84 years. Through his advancements in mathematical notations and having brought symbolism to algebra, Diophantus earned the name “the father of algebra”.…
Brahmagupta (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मगुप्त; listen (help·info)) (597–668 AD) was a Indian mathematician and astronomer who wrote many important works on mathematics and astronomy. His best known work is the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta (Correctly Established Doctrine of Brahma), written in 628 in Bhinmal. Its 25 chapters contain several unprecedented mathematical results.…