central insight that literature is written by actual people and that understanding an author’s life can help readers more thoroughly comprehend the work. Anyone who reads the biography of a writer quickly sees how much an author’s experience shapes—both directly and indirectly—what he or she creates. Reading that biography will also change (and usually deepen) our response to the work. Sometimes even knowing a single important fact illuminates our reading of a poem or story. Learning‚ for example
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Facebook * Pinterest HUMANS Top 10 Greatest Mathematicians M. R. SEXTON DECEMBER 7‚ 2010 Often called the language of the universe‚ mathematics is fundamental to our understanding of the world and‚ as such‚ is vitally important in a modern society such as ours. Everywhere you look it is likely mathematics has made an impact‚ from the faucet in your kitchen to the satellite that beams your television programs to your home. As such‚ great mathematicians are undoubtedly going to rise above the rest
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Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar Loftus – 3A Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He was born in Erode‚ Tamil Nadu state‚ India and went to college‚ but dropped out because he was not focused on anything academic besides mathematics. On the bright side‚ a clerk in Madras‚ India sent a letter to an English mathematician named G. H. Hardy in England showing 120 statements of theorems on infinite series‚ improper integrals‚ continued fractions‚ and number
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Mathematicians of the 17th Century Jacob Bernoulli (also known as James or Jacques) (27 December 1654/6 January 1655 – 16 August 1705) was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He became familiar with calculus through a correspondence with Gottfried Leibniz‚ then collaborated with his brother Johann on various applications‚ notably publishing papers ontranscendental curves (1696) and isoperimetry(1700‚ 1701). In 1690‚ Jacob Bernoulli became the first person to develop
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BC Calculus Post AP Exam Assignment: 500 BC-1 AD: Euclid‚ alive around 300 BC‚ completely transformed mathematics. His influence is extremely evident today in the fields of geometry‚ arithmetic‚ and optics. Living in a time when questioning thought‚ trying to understand the changing world‚ and developing ideas that could help understand the natural world‚ Euclid was able to identify and create ideas that transformed the way people viewed the world into a more mathematical‚ logical‚ and
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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel The book The Man who Knew Infinity‚ by Robert Kanigel‚ sheds light on the life of Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. Ramanujan’s story is exceptional due to his background and all the circumstances that surrounded his life. The book explains to the very smallest detail‚ who Ramanujan really was as a human‚ the challenges he overcame and why he was so special. In the book‚ Education‚ Religion
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Born: March 14‚ 1879‚ in Ulm‚ Kingdom of Württemberg‚ German Empire Died: April 18‚ 1955 (at age 76) in Princeton‚ New Jersey Nationality: German Famous For: Father of the Atomic Age. Many contributions to science that transformed the modern world Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)‚ Time Magazine’s Person of the Century (1999) Einstein’s Contribution to Mathematics While Einstein was remembered for his contributions to physics‚ he also made contributions in mathematics
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Ramanujan Biography Born: December 22‚ 1887 Died: April 26‚ 1920 Achievements: Ramanujan independently discovered results of Gauss‚ Kummer and others on hypergeometric series. Ramanujan’s own work on partial sums and products of hypergeometric series have led to major development in the topic. His most famous work was on the number p(n) of partitions of an integer n into summands. Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematician par excellence. He is widely believed to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th
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Florence Price‚ Composer The purpose of a biography is to enhance the reader’s knowledge about a particular person’s life‚ in this case‚ Florence Beatrice Price‚ and offer a sort of historical background focusing on significant events‚ accomplishments‚ and personal aspects of that particular individual’s life. Ideally‚ the writer molds complex biographical factsbirth and death‚ education‚ ambition‚ conflict‚ milieu‚ work‚ relationship‚ accidentinto a book [or article] that has the independent
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always written using first-person point of view. A autobiography is usually book length because it covers a long period of writer’s life. However‚ there are shorter types of autobiographical writing such as journals‚ diaries‚ and memoirs. 2. Biography: A biography is the true story of a person’s life told by someone else. The writer‚ or biographer‚ interviews the subject if possible and also reaches the person’s life by reading letters‚ books‚ diaries‚ and any other information he or she can find.
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