Mesopotamia was the world’s first civilization--the first time people settled down to live together in one place. They didn’t have to rely only on hunting and gathering to get food because they knew how to farm and could save up food for the winter. Since they had so much extra time now (the time they used to spend hunting animals and gathering plants)‚ this allowed them to begin creating objects and ideas to help them live a little easier. This slideshow will demonstrate some of Mesopotamia’s
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PROJECT ABOUT FERMAT ’S LAST THEOREM I am going to do my project in the field of number theory. Number theory‚ a subject with a long and rich history‚ has become increasingly important because of its application to computer science and cryptography. The core topics of number theory are such as divisibility‚ highest common factor‚ primes‚ factorization‚ Diophantine equations and so on‚ among which I chose Diophantine equations as the specific topic I would like to go deep into. Fermat
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TOK Reflection: Mathematics To what extent is math relevant to your life and the lives of others you know and how can it become an even more viable area of knowledge. “In mathematics I can report no deficience‚ except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the Pure Mathematics.” Roger Bacon (1214-1294) Mathematics: the abstract science of number‚ quantity‚ and space; a subject considered by many to be useless‚ a waste of time‚ and too difficult. “When am
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The Golden Ratio By : Kaavya.K In mathematics and the arts‚ two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. The golden ratio is an irrational mathematical constant‚ approximately 1.6180339887. Other names frequently used for the golden ratio are the golden section and golden mean. Other terms encountered include extreme and mean ratio‚ medial section‚ divine
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1 MCR3U Exam Review Math Study Guide U.1: Rational Expressions‚ Exponents‚ Factoring‚ Inequalities 1.1 Exponent Rules Rule Product Quotient Power of a power Power of a product Power of a quotient Description a m × a n = a m+n a m ÷ a n = a m−n Example 4 2 × 45 = 47 5 4 ÷ 52 = 52 (a ) a m n = a m×n a a (3 ) 2 4 = 38 2 2 2 (xy) = x y an a = n ‚b ≠ 0 b b a0 = 1 a −m = 1 ‚a ≠ 0 am n (2 x 3) = 2 x 3 35 3 = 5 4 4 70 = 1 9 −2 = 4 5 Zero
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------------------------------------------------- Hipparchus "Even if he did not invent it‚ Hipparchus is the first person of whose systematic use of trigonometry we have documentary evidence." (Heath 257) Some historians go as far as to say that he invented trigonometry. Not much is known about the life of Hipp archus. It is believed that he was born at Nicaea in Bithynia. (Sarton 285) The town of Nicaea is now called Iznik and is situated in northwestern Turkey. Founded in the 4th century BC
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Statistics – Lab Week 2 Name: Math221 Creating Graphs 1. Create a Pie Chart for the variable Car - 2. Create a histogram for the variable Height – 3. Create a stem and leaf chart for the variable Money – Stem-and-Leaf Display: Money Stem-and-leaf of Money N = 20 Leaf Unit = 1.0 9 0 124456667 (3) 1 249 8 2 128 5 3 03 3 4 27 1 5 2 Calculating Descriptive Statistics 4. Calculate descriptive
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Religion and Science At the outset let me start with the quote from the father of the theory of relativity‚ Albert Einstein who aptly remark that…… "We owe a lot to the Indians‚ who taught us how to count‚ without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made." Apart from Einstein Will Durant‚ American historian stated that "India was the motherland of our race‚ and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother‚ through
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-- 501 B.C. circa 1850 B.C.: The Babylonians possess knowledge of what will later be known as "The Pythagorean Theorem‚" an equation that relates the sides of right triangles whereby the sum of the squares of the two "legs" (the shortest sides) of the right triangle equal the square of the
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sub-sections such as calculus‚ geometry‚ trigonometry and algebra. Who was Pythagoras? Pythagoras was born in 570 BCE in Samon‚ Ionia‚ and died 500-490 BCE. He was a Greek mathematician and philosopher who is greatly known for his creation of the Pythagorean theorem. His principles influenced the work of Aristotle and Plato. Pythagoras migrated to
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