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    Alexander Grothendieck Alexander Grothendieck is a prominent mathematician who is well known for his theories in algebraic geometry‚ homological algebra and functional analysis. He was born in the capital of Germany‚ Berlin‚ in 1928‚ one year before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Grothendieck’s parents were Sascha Shapiro and Hanka Grothendieck. Shapiro was a Russian anarchist of Jewish decent‚ prosecuted by the Czar and later by the Bolsheviks. He’d lost his left arm during an attempted prison

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    com/quotes/authors/c/charles_babbage.html 2. "Charles Babbage." World of Mathematics. Gale‚ 2006. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. 3. Dunham‚ William. The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey through the Great Proofs‚ Problems‚ and Personalities. New York: Wiley & Sons‚ 1994. Print. 4. Bruno‚ L. C.‚ & Baker‚ L. W. (1999). Charles Babbage. In Math Mathematicians: The History of Math Discoveries Around the World (pp. 31-36). Farmington Hills‚ MI: U.X.L.; Gale Group

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    Guy Benjamin Former Name of School: Benjamin Franklin BP: St. John Books: Me and My Beloved Virgin and More Tales for Me and My Beloved Virgin Bertha C. Boschulte Teaching: 1924-1949 Statistician‚ Legislator for One Term Junior High School in Bovoni‚ St. Thomas Addelita Cancryn 53 years of service in DOE Former Name: Wayne Aspinall Junior High School Book: Man of Vision Musician‚ Organist and Choir Director for All Saints Cathedral Elena Leonie Elizabeth Davis Christian Former

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    Francis Galton Biography

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    Biometry “Sir Francis Galton laid the foundations on which are based the fingerprint systems employed today by police forces throughout the world.” D.G. Browne and A. Brock‚ Fingerprints: Fifty Years of Scientific Crime Detection‚ 1954 This research paper will discuss the life and career of the renowned forensic scientist Sir Francis Galton‚ one of the Victorian Age’s most eccentric and prolific scientific minds. This will discuss his early life in Birmingham‚ England‚ his formal education in London

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    Leonhard Euler: A Biography

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    Leonhard Euler (/ˈɔɪlər/ oil-er;[2] German pronunciation: [ˈɔʏlɐ] ( listen)‚ local pronunciation: [ˈɔɪlr̩] ( listen); 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation‚ particularly for mathematical analysis‚ such as the notion of amathematical function.[3] He is also renowned for his work in mechanics

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    George Polya's Biography

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    you have to go in the water‚ and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems. -Mathematical Discovery In 1914 while in Zurich Polya had a wide variety of mathematical output. By 1918 Polya published a selection of papers. These papers consisted of such subjects as number theory‚ combinatorics‚ and voting systems. While doing so he studied intently in the following years on integral functions. As time went by he was noted for many of his quotes such as the following.

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    Henry Heimlich Biography

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    (Henry Heimlich Biography). Used widely by the military during the Vietnam War‚ the device allowed soldiers who were shot in the chest a good chance to Henry 3 survive for the first time in history. (Henry Heimlich Biography). More than four million Heimlich Chest Drain valves have been sold since that time. (Henry Heimlich Biography). In the early 1970’s‚ after learning that nearly 4‚000 Americans die each year from choking

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    sand-blasted plastered rear wall. Due to his innovations and dedication to both lighting and theatre‚ he was presented the USITT Award for his "lifetime contribution to the performing arts community" at the 1980 Kansas City Conference. His professional papers have been archived in the Theodore Fuchs Collection on Theatre Technology in the Lee Library on campus of Brigham Young University in Provo‚

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    Johannes Kepler Biography

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    On this day 442 years ago one of the greatest astronomically skilled mathematicians were born‚ his name was Johannes Kepler. He was born around one o’clock in the afternoon. His parents were Katharina Kepler‚ and Heinrich Kepler. He grew up in a very poor family with his father being a soldier‚ and his mom an herbalist‚ or healer. He suffered from smallpox at the age of four and his father past away when he was five. Contributions that he made to math were that he made laws of planetary motion

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    Shakespeare biography

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    We know very little about Shakespeare’s life during two major spans of time‚ commonly referred to as the "lost years." The lost years fall into two periods: 1578-82 and 1585-92. The first period covers the time after Shakespeare left grammar school until his marriage to Anne Hathaway in November of 1582. The second period covers the seven years of Shakespeare’s life in which he must have been perfecting his dramatic skills and collecting sources for the plots of his plays. "What could such a genius

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