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    Sunita Williams

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    officer and a NASA astronaut.[1] She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. She holds the record of the longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travelers. She was born in Euclid‚ Ohio to Dr. Deepak Pandya and Bonnie Pandya. Her parents now reside in Falmouth‚ Massachusetts. Deepak Pandya is a famous neuroanatomist. Williams’ roots on her father’s side go back to Gujarat in India and she has been to India to visit her father’s

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    I. Three Key Concepts: a. Abstraction: Taking a simpler view of a complex entity by selectively ignoring details. b. Procedure: An unambiguous step-by-step description of how to carry out a task c. Representation: An unambiguous plan for how to build an object from simpler objects. II. Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) a. Given two positive integers a and b‚ find the largest integer that divides both a and b. III. Representation and Abstraction a. An Integer is represented as a sequence of (0s

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    History of Pi

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    What is π? Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines π as "1: the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet... 2 a: the symbol pi denoting the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter b: the ratio itself: a transcendental number having a value to eight decimal places of 3.14159265" A number can be placed into several categories based on its properties. Is it prime or composite? Is it imaginary or real? Is it transcendental or algebraic? These questions help define a number’s behavior in

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    without prior review by the funders. The authors have full access to and control of study data. The funders had no role in writing or submitting the manuscript. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Kurt C. Stange‚ MD‚ PhD Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Ave‚ LC 7136 Cleveland‚ OH 44106 kcs@case.edu ANNALS OF FAMILY MEDICINE ✦ WWW.ANNFAMMED.ORG ✦ VOL. 8‚ SUPPLEMENT 1‚ 2010 S3 CONTEXT FOR UNDERSTANDING THE NDP AND PCMH method approach that integrated qualitative methods to tell the

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    their sons to schools to become wise Greek citizens. Archimedes had one of the best educations as a boy. When he was in his teens Archimedes traveled to Alexandria and went to one of the most famous schools of mathematics that had been founded by Euclid. There he studied astronomy‚ geometry‚ algebra‚ trigonometry‚ astrology‚ geography‚ surveying‚ mechanics‚ and alchemy with many other brilliant minds of his time. Various subjects he studied when he was younger were poetry‚ politics‚

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    Mathematics and Mayans

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    Ancient Greek mathematics has been developed since the early seventh century B.C. which could also be called the period during the Hellenistic Mathematics. Some of the greatest Ancient Greek mathematicians were Pythagoras‚ Aristotle‚ Anaxagoras‚ Euclid‚ Archimedes‚ Thales‚ and Aristarchus. These Greek mathematicians were big on the development of geometry which is a subdivision of math that focuses on shapes‚ size‚ and the relativity of space. Although their number system was based on letters of

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    Socrates and Descartes

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    figured these things out are still being questioned today. "I think‚ therefore I am" is that start that Rene Descartes needed to start proving everything he wanted to be true. Descartes was influenced by the precision and completeness of mathematics. Euclid‚ was the man that influenced him the most‚ because of his axioms and the thought that you must start all with things that you know

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    Philosophy of Man

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    The debut of philosophy goes all the way back to the BC era‚ when philosophers like Thales‚ Euclid and Pythagoras were asking questions about the universe‚ figuring out what stuff was made of‚ determining if empty space actually exists‚ and uncovering logic and mathematical theories. No one can state for sure who the first philosophers were‚ since not every theory and philosophical ideas were recorded in writing. When discussing historical philosophy most people divide it into eastern and western

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    Scientific Renaissance

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    other works on physics. Muslim scholars then studied these books and anticipated to obtain more. Al- Ma’mun sent ambassadors and translators to the Byzantine Empire‚ for searching out works on Greek sciences and have them translated into Arabic. Euclid‚ Apol-lonius of Perga‚ Nichomachus of Gerasa‚ Menelaus‚ Archimedes‚ and Theodosius of Tripoli were all translated into Latin and Hebrew. These were works by

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    force impressed and is made in the direction of the straight line in which that force is impressed; 3. To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or‚ the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal. The works of Euclid (c. 300BCE) in Greece was the origin of optics. In 1604‚ Kepler published a book called Astronomiae Pars Optica (The Optical Part of Astronomy) Kepler approached optics by breaking organic reality into what he considered to be ultimately real units

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