mathematics. For a start‚ it is an extraordinary honour to be invited to give the keynote address at a millennium meeting in Paris. Secondly‚ giving a lecture on the significance of mathematics demands wisdom‚ judgment and maturity‚ and there are many mathematicians far better endowed than I am with these qualities‚ including several in this audience. I hope therefore that you will understand that my thoughts are not fully formed: if I had been asked to speak on this subject five years ago‚ I would have
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Ashoka in the third century B.C. Indians were the first to use the decimal system. The famous mathematician Aryabhata (A.D. 476-500) was acquainted with it. The Chinese learnt this system from the Buddhist missionaries‚ and the western world borrowed it from the Arab as when they came in contact with India. Zero was discovered by Indians in about the second century B.C. From the very beginning Indian mathematicians considered zero as a separate numeral‚ and it was used in this sense in arithmetic. In Arabia
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Evelyn Boyd Granville Evelyn Boyd Granville‚ a mathematician‚ teacher‚ and scientist‚ she was born on January 5‚ 1924 in Washington‚ D.C. She attended a then-segregated Dunbar High School‚ and was encouraged in the subject by two of her mathemetics teachers. Granville attended Smith College on a partial scholarship. In 1945‚ she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She worked with Einar Hille‚ her Ph.D. faculty adviser at Yale University‚ in functional analysis. Granville
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René Descartes By: Geaney Pacursa René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher‚ mathematician‚ and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the ’Father of Modern Philosophy’‚ and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings‚ which are studied closely to this day. In particular‚ his Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes’ influence
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beautiful technique‚ its detail to the people illustrates and attributes that are beyond compare‚ the School of Athens is truly the greatest Renaissance creation. In Raphael’s Painting the School of Athens‚ he illustrates all the appreciable mathematicians‚ philosophers and scientists from the classical era all congregated together
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Around this time‚ he married Gloria Stewart in 1947. Together they had two children‚ Sharon and J. Ernest the third. During 1950 he then worked as a mathematician the United Nuclear Corporation of America in White Plains‚ NY for ten years. Furthering his career‚ Wilkins earned degrees when he was awarded a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from NYU in 1957 and a Master of Mechanical Engineering n 1960.After
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HISTORY OF ZERO This essay summarises the development of zero‚ as both digit and number‚ from early to modern civilisations. More willing to accept the concept of void‚ the Eastern civilisations are credited with the invention of zero. The Western civilisations‚ on the other hand‚ struggled for almost two millennia to finally accept zero. The history of zero from merely a placeholder in place value systems (digit) to finally becoming accepted as a number has a very long history in Western
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based on biographies (and biographies about Ramanujan are a-plenty) I will be analyzing letters he wrote. These letters have been stored in the National Archives in Delhi‚ the Archives of the State of Tamil Nadu‚ and in collections of various mathematicians with whom Ramanujan corresponded. They were compiled by Bruce Berndt and Robert Rankin in their book Ramanujan‚ Letters and Commentary. I believe these letters will give me a “first source” not only pertaining to Ramanujan’s life but also a more
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Alexander Bain - Phi... Alexander Bain was a prominent philosopher and logician who excelled in the fields of psychology‚ linguistics‚ logic and moral philosophy. Many ... Read More Alfred North Whitehe... Alfred North Whitehead was a British Mathematician who is known for his tremendous contributions in algebra‚ logic‚ foundations of mathematics‚ ... Read More Anicius Manlius Seve... “Last of the Romans”‚ as he is fondly dubbed‚ Boethius‚ the Roman philosopher and statesman‚ is regarded by many
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the great mathematicians of the golden age of Greek mathematics. Apollonius‚ known as "the great geometer‚" arrived at the properties of the conic sections purely by geometry. His descriptions were so complete that he would have had little to learn about conic sections from our modern analytical geometry except for the improved modern notation. He did not‚ however‚ describe the properties of conic sections algebraically as we do today. It would take almost 2000 years before mathematicians would make
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