(Heiss 4‚7). The origin of tea trade could be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. During the Tang dynasty‚ Emperor Dezong sent his supervisory official Chang Lu to visit Tibet. Chang Lu offered some boiled tea to the Tibetan king‚ who then asked what it was. When Chang answered‚ the king informed him that Tibet already had tea and had his servants show it to Chang (Yang). The Chinese were the main exporters of tea. The Tea Horse Road‚ or Chamadao‚ was a central trade route for exchanging Tibetan horses
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respectable job at communicating both the humor and confusion of adolescence‚ but one actress stuck out to me most. Katie Chang‚ though appearing in only one scene as “Van’s Sister‚” completely stole the show and blew everybody out of the water. Her performance managed to be natural and dynamic at the same time‚ which I couldn’t say the same for other actors in the production. Chang played a teen girl who is institutionalized for setting a classmate’s hair on fire‚ yet she portrayed her so well I didn’t
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Algebrae (1560) he says: "The name Algebra is Syriac‚ signifying the art or doctrine of an excellent man. For Geber‚ in Syriac‚ is a name applied to men‚ and is sometimes a term of honour‚ as master or doctor among us. There was a certain learned mathematician who sent his algebra‚ written in the Syriac language‚ to Alexander the Great‚ and he named it almucabala‚ that is‚ the book of dark or mysterious things‚ which others would rather call the doctrine of algebra. To this day the same book is in great
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called Illusions‚ part of a four-movement piece by Chao-Jan Chang called “four moods for solo cello.” Each individual solo is meant to reflect on one of the many moods that humans feel‚ and the inspiration comes from the composer’s own feelings. Even though to listen to is you feel a chill down your spine and your hairs stand on end‚ you feel the underlying emotions of what the composer had to be feeling when writing this piece. Chao-Jan Chang created unique techniques for playing the cello to accomplish
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Al-Khwarizmi: The Father of Algebra Muhammed Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi‚ was a mathematical pioneer‚ and is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the Islamic world‚ as well as the founder algebra. His book entitled Kitâb al-Mukhtasar fî Hisâb al-Jabr wa ’l-Muqâbala‚ which means “The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing‚” established algebra as an independent discipline. While his arithmetic work‚ possibly entitled Kitāb al-Jamʿ wa-l-tafrīq bi-ḥisāb al-Hind
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Introduction In-game advertising refers to the placement of brands in games (Yang et al. 2006). This trend had started in the late 1980s with the brand placement of Marlboro on billboards in the racing games of Sega Games (Chambers 2006‚ cited Chang et al. 2010)‚ and since then the development of the internet and game development technology has been accelerated. The expansion of video game industry has attracted advertisers’ attention to a new potential promising market where they can target especially
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and algebra along side their religious rituals. in the 1st millennium BC‚ mathematicians usually solved such equations by geometric methods‚ such as those described in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus‚ Euclid’s Elements‚ and The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. Much of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian mathematics‚ including algebra‚ is based on the Rhind papyrus. This was written about 1650 B.C. The Greek mathematician Diophantus has traditionally been known as the "father of algebra" but in
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and orderly fashion from a set of universally accepted axioms called postulates Pythagoras * Founded Pythagoreans composed of two groups‚ the listeners & the mathematicians. They believed that “to become a good mathematician‚ one must first be a good listener. * Discovered Pythagorean Theorem which states that “in a right triangle‚ the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two legs”.
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A mathematician is a person who uses extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work to solve math problems. For an African American it was nearly impossible to become a mathematician without experiencing racism and or discrimination. Out of all the famous African American mathematicians I believe that Benjamin Banneker went through the most to become a mathematician and a writer. Mainly because he was born during the slavery time period. Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9‚ 1731‚ in Ellicott’s
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any kind of calculation. This machine was the Analytical Engine and it possessed some the characteristics of today’s computers. George Boole‚ born November 2‚ 1815‚ was a British mathematician and founder of mathematical logic. Coming from a poor family of limited means‚ Boole was essentially a self-taught mathematician. In 1847 Boole published "Mathematical Analysis of Logic". In the book‚ Boole established that logic could be represented by algebraic equations. This conception eventually become
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