Archimedes of Syracuse (287 BC – 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 calculate the area under the arc of a parabola with the summation of an infinite series‚ and gave a remarkably accurate approximation of pi. He also defined the spiral bearing his name‚ formulae for the volumes of solids of revolution
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entered the market initially by a joint venture with the thai company chang beverages. The advantages was that carlsberg could use chang beverages leading position in the asian market to introduce their beer‚ they also shared the risk with chang beverages. The disadvantages where that the potential profit was lower since it would have to be shared with chang beverages. Another disadvantage is that they had to work together with chang beverages however due to disagreements carlsberg had to pull out of
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term care facilities. This study used a qualitative methodology based on action research. “Action research collects information from key stakeholders and provides ongoing feedback to participants‚ thereby facilitating change that improves practice.” (Chang et al.‚ 2009‚ p. 42). The essence of the study aimed to expose the challenges for key professional providers of care for people with advanced dementia. “Descriptions of these challenges provide professional carers and policy makers with insights into
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grandmother was a warlord’s concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao’s revolution and rose‚ like her husband‚ to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched‚ worked‚ and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Born just a few decades apart‚ their lives overlap with the end of the warlords’ regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation‚ violent
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used it to find the volume of a sphere.[2] In AD 499 the Indian mathematician Aryabhata used the notion of infinitesimals and expressed an astronomical problem in the form of a basic differential equation.[4] This equation eventually led Bhāskara II in the 12th century to develop an early derivative representing infinitesimal change‚ and he described an early form of "Rolle’s theorem".[5] Around AD 1000‚ the Islamic mathematician Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) was the first to derive the formula for the
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Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has entertained not only children but adults for over one hundred years. The tale has become a treasure of philosophers‚ literary critics‚ psychoanalysts‚ and linguists. It also has attracted Carroll’s fellow mathematicians and logicians. There appears to be something in Alice for everyone‚ and there are almost as many explanations of the work as there are commentators. It may be perhaps Carroll’s fantastical style of writing that entertains the reader‚ rather than
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Hypatia of Alexandria Hypatia is a famous scholar from ancient Egypt. To this day‚ she is still the only famous mathematician from ancient times. She wrote many books on mathematical and philosophical concepts and became a great teacher. Hypatia is the first woman known to be able to analyze and teach highly advanced mathematics. She is still considered the only famous female mathematician even though all of her work is either lost or destroyed. Hypatia was born sometime around 370 AD. She grew
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HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS The history of mathematics is nearly as old as humanity itself. Since antiquity‚ mathematics has been fundamental to advances in science‚ engineering‚ and philosophy. It has evolved from simple counting‚ measurement and calculation‚ and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects‚ through the application of abstraction‚ imagination and logic‚ to the broad‚ complex and often abstract discipline we know today. From the notched bones of early man
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`Famous mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether The famous German mathematician that is not very well know but is noticed for her contributions is Noether. Amalie Emmy Noether‚ named after her mother Ida Amalie; was born on March 23‚ 1882. Emmy died in Bryn Mawr‚ Pennsylvania during the year of 1935. Emmy had four siblings but only two of them survived their childhood. Her brother and father were both mathematicians. Noether never married because she was focused on math all the time. Noether attended
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and Math (disambiguation). Euclid‚ Greek mathematician‚ 3rd century BC‚ as imagined by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens.[1]Mathematics is the abstract study of quantity (numbers)‚[2] structure‚[3] space‚[2] change‚[4][5] and any topic which has quantities and therefore can be studied quantitatively.[6] It has no generally accepted definition.[7][8] Mathematicians seek out patterns[9][10] and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures
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