geometric arrangement of the binomial coefficients in a triangle.It is also known as the figurate triangle‚ the combinatorial triangle‚ and the binomial triangle. Even though Pascal’s Triangle is named after seventeenth century mathematician‚ Blaise Pascal‚ several other mathematicians knew about and applied their knowledge of the triangle hundreds of years before the birth of Pascal in 1623. The Arabs‚ Persians and the Chinese discovered Pascal’s triangle in earlier centuries. The earliest depictions
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In The Rape of Nanking‚ Iris Chang clearing outlines the perceptions of both the Japanese and the victims of the Nanking Massacre‚ also known as a Holocaust of the Second World War. It is important to understand the different stories that every country can tell about the events that unfolded during World War II‚ one of the controversial ones being the Nanking Massacre. Chang’s main purpose of writing this book is to provide a reminder of the cruel acts that extended to the Chinese prisoners of war
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(by mohan arora) Have you ever thought how this world of mathematics would be without irrational numbers? If the great Pythagorean hyppasus or any other mathematician would have not ever thought of such numbers? Before ‚understanding the development of irrational numbers ‚we should understand what these numbers originally are and who discovered them? In mathematics‚ an irrational number is any real number that cannot be expressed as a ratio a/b‚ where a and b are integers and b is non-zero
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The story “Lust Caution” by Eileen Chang opens with an elaborate‚ extended description of the appearance of the protagonist‚ Chia-chih‚ which depicts her hair‚ face‚ makeup‚ and clothing in excruciating detail. Many of the phrases used reveal the intentional nature of how Chia-chih has dressed: “full advantage”‚ “understated”‚ “nonchalantly”‚ “allowed” (Chang 3). These phrases imply that Chia-chih has made deliberate choices to project an attitude in the way she dresses.The emphasis placed on Chia-chih’s
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The late Iris Chang hoped that her work “THE RAPE OF NANKING” would lead to an official Japanese apology for the atrocities Japanese troops committed in Nanking in 1937. Chang’s well-intentioned attempt to secure a Japanese apology for the Nanking atrocities is meaningless because many of the perpetrators and victims are now dead. Thus‚ a Japanese apology would be an empty gesture that has no meaning. "We will probably never know exactly what news Hirohito received about Nanking as the massacre was
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November 2014 “The Life of Sir Isaac Newton” When I had to choose a name from the list of the greatest mathematicians‚ it became a difficult task to only choose one. There are so many people to choose from‚ but I chose‚ Isaac (Sir) Newton. Isaac Newton was born on January 4th 1643 in Woolsthorpe‚ England. Newton died on March 31‚ 1727 in London. Newton was a very different type of mathematician‚ his ways were not always the same as the other greats. Isaac Newton mainly used mathematics as a researching
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Biography of a Mathematician MTH/110 October 28‚ 2013 Michael Gray Biography of a Mathematician Archimedes‚ one of the greatest mathematicians‚ engineers‚ physicist‚ inventors‚ and astronomer ’s in history. Ranked with the likes of Isaac Newton and Carl Gauss‚ Archimedes contributions to math include the area of geometry‚ number theory‚ algebra‚ and theorems of plane. Birth Archimedes was born in Syracuse‚ Greece on the island of Sicily in 287 BC. Son of Pheidias‚ a well-known astronomer
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Sirinivasa Ramanujan‚ (born December 22‚ 1887‚ Erode‚ India—died April 26‚ 1920‚ Kumbakonam)‚ Indian mathematician whose contributions to the theory of numbers include pioneering discoveries of the properties of the partition function. When he was 15 years old‚ he obtained a copy of George Shoobridge Carr’s Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics‚ 2 vol. (1880–86). This collection of some 6‚000 theorems (none of the material was newer than 1860) aroused his genius. Having
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Chang’an in the Post Classical Era Chang’an‚ literally meaning “constant peace”‚ was the most cosmopolitan city in the world during the Post Classical Era and the best known segment of the Silk Road. With a population of about two million at its largest‚ Chang’an‚ the capital of the Tang Dynasty‚ was a major conduit for China’s second Golden Age. Although Chang’an was a cultural melting pot influenced by foreigners such as the Turks and Indians‚ it was economically‚ politically‚ and socially
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2012-The Year of Mathematics P.Bhattacharyya [pic] [pic] (GH Hardy ‚ Ramanujan and Littlewood) The great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on the 22nd of December 1887 in Erode‚ Tamilnadu. In a function held in the Centenary Hall of Madras University on the 26th of December 2011 marking the 125th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan‚ the Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh proclaimed: “Our
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