Leonhard Euler Euler‚ Leonhard (1707-83)‚ Swiss mathematician‚ whose major work was done in the field of pure mathematics‚ a field that he helped to found. Euler was born in Basel and studied at the University of Basel under the Swiss mathematician Johann Bernoulli‚ obtaining his master’s degree at the age of 16. In 1727‚ at the invitation of Catherine I‚ empress of Russia‚ Euler became a member of the faculty of the Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. He was appointed professor of physics
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explanations. 2. THe Concept 2.1 History of imaginary numbers Long ago in ancient Greece‚ there was a society of mathematicians called Pythagoreans who believed the only numbers were natural numbers and positive rational numbers (Rusczyk 357). Later‚ Hippasus discovered irrational numbers such as√2‚ then 0 and negative numbers were introduced. This completes the real numbers set‚ but mathematicians at that time have not even thought of the set of imaginary numbers yet. The first appearance of complex numbers
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Euler may be the most influential mathematician who ever lived (though some would make him second to Euclid); he ranks #77 on Michael Hart’s famous list of the Most Influential Persons in History. His colleagues called him "Analysis Incarnate." Laplace‚ famous for denying credit to fellow mathematicians‚ once said "Read Euler: he is our master in everything." His notations and methods in many areas are in use to this day. Euler was the most prolific mathematician in history and is often judged to
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In this essay I will be discussing how the Romans high regard for the arts‚ learning‚ and law as well as being an open minded civilization lead to their political advances and achievements through out their time period. I believe that Rome’s high regarding of the arts and learning lead to them being a strong civilization because it taught them how to be more open minded as well as to give them an insight into what their people want in their government and how they want to be lead. Rome’s
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china’s lack of awareness‚ preparedness and leadership contributed to Nanking’s overwhelming defeat. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang is also referred to as the forgotten holocaust of World War 2 this is a story taken from three different perspectives. Why after centuries of futile destruction‚ does man persist in waging war? In the non-fiction work-tron‚ by Iris Chang‚ the author chronicles the events of Nanking’s devastation in the winter of 1937-38. The Story will represent tragic tales from
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Aryabhatta is a renowned mathematician and astronomer of ancient India. He was born in 476 AD in Kerala. He studied at the University of Nalanda. One of his major work was Aryabhatiya written in 499 AD. The book dealt with many topics like astronomy‚ spherical trigonometry‚ arithmetic‚ algebra and plane trigonometry. He jotted his inventions in mathematics and astronomy in verse form. The book was translated into Latin in the 13th century. Through the translated Latin version of the Aryabhattiya
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When calculus was invented‚ has always been a question in Math. The first signs of calculus were done by Greek mathematicians. Zeno of Elea of about 450 B.C. gave a number of problems which were based on the infinite. His argument was that motion is impossible. Other Greek mathematicians that contributed to the method of exhaustion are Leucippus‚ Democritus and Antiphon. The method of exhaustion is so called because one thinks of the areas measured expanding so that they account for more and more
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By: Victor Hui Introduction Leonhard Euler was a ground-breaking Swiss mathematician and physicist from the 1700’s. He made many revolutionary discoveries. However‚ the one that caught my eye was his solution to the Basel Problem in the year 1734. The Basel problem was initially posed by an Italian mathematician by the name of Pietro Mengoli in the early 1640’s. This problem baffled the even the greatest minds at the time. Branching from mathematical analysis‚ the Basel problem involved knowledge
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uncommon in the modern technological society that we live in. Perpetual surveillance and the precarious nature of the freedom of man under such circumstances‚ are not topics that only Kaczynski recognized as dangerous results of technology. Being a mathematician in such a pivotal technological era no doubt encouraged his fears of the potential power of technology to turn the tables and control humans instead because he likely understood the potentialities of the technology more than the average person
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basic engineering skills‚ which in many instances required a knowledge of the relationship between the square and the circle (usually satisfied by finding a reasonable approximation of π). Although there are no surviving records of individual mathematicians from this period‚ historians today know the values used by some ancient cultures. Here is a sampling of some cultures and the values that they used: Babylonians - 3 1/8‚ Egyptians - (16/9)^2‚ Chinese - 3‚ Hebrews - 3 (implied in the Bible‚ I Kings
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