Sophie Germain Female of French Revolution Marie-Sophie Germain was born on April 1‚ 1776 and passed away on June 27‚ 1831. She was an important French mathematician‚ and a brilliant woman who lived during the French Revolution. Germain was born to a middle-class merchant family in Paris‚ France‚ and began studying mathematics at age thirteen‚ despite her parents’ strong attempts to dissuade her from engaging in a ’men’s profession’. Several years later‚ she managed to get some lecture notes
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Although there are many famous mathematicians that I do not know of‚ Maria Gaëtana Agnesi is an important mathematician of the Renaissance period. Born on May 16‚ 1718‚ Maria was the oldest of twenty one. “She was the daughter of Pietro Agnesi who came from a wealthy family who made their money from silk.”(O’Connor and Robertson) Recognized as a child prodigy‚ early‚ Maria’s father made sure to provide the finest tutors for his daughter. All of Maria’s tutors were men educated by the Church
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Secret Mathematician: Sophie Germain Please Don ’t Copy This Exactly! For Information Only. Sophie Germain‚ born to wealthy parents and coming of age during the French Revolution turned to the study of mathematics as a way to cure her boredom. She quickly became a sneaky mathematician hiding her studies first from her parent’s and later from the mentors she most admired and respected. She had to pose as a male to be taken seriously in her studies. As Sophie grew older and fell in love with
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Biography is concerned with the pattern of action woven by a human character. It is concerned with creating not simply recording. The writing of biography is not a cut-and-dried affair‚ the assemblage of known facts in a chronological order. Much of the work of the biographer consists in unearthing and collecting the facts. But after the facts have been assembled and classified‚ the business of interpretation remains. The biographer must put the facts with which he deals into some sort of pattern
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also the first African-American female doctor to ever receive a patent‚ much less than in four different countries (Biography
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English Topic: Sample Biography of a Great Lady___ Date: February 11‚ 2013____ Name of Teacher: Miss Lanie Pantinople Alberca__ No. of Meetings: ___1____ _ TPO: Thereafter reading and analyzing the content of a sample biography‚ the students will be able
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Pythagoras Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He was born in Samos‚ Ionia around 580 b.c. Thales‚ who was another philosopher was the main teacher of Pythagoras. Pythagoras went to study further in Egypt so Thales couldn’t teach him anymore. In Pythagoras’ teenage years‚ he began to become known for his philosophic ideas. He also succeeded in math‚ astronomy‚ wrestling‚ and music. In music‚ he figured out that when a string is vibrating‚ the longer or shorter it is makes a difference
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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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happy with his life and he struggles with problems such as getting words down on his paper which is quite a course for an author. But in the trivial world of William one great memory‚ of a gift from his mother‚ lights up. Just like the one special biography‚ about Christine‚ lights up in his bookshelf. The story starts in Medias res. William is at home gathered by a “pile of notes and facts”. As it is explained‚ by the third person narrator‚ the house is “quiet” and William is home alone with his
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Once upon a time‚ in the sunken city of Atlantis‚ there was a well known mathematician. This mathematician was a fish though‚ and was famous for discovering the pike-thagorean theorem. Now‚ this fish was facing the lowly task of tutoring a bunch of young fish in how to be successful in algaebra. Little did he know‚ he was being watched by an evil force as he went about this task. While the teacher taught his students about pollock-nomials‚ he was unaware that nearby‚ a waterproof robot bigger than
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