Abstract Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the Earth revolved around it. Copernicus created a concept of a universe in which the distances of the planets from the sun bore a direct relationship to the size of their orbits. After the death of Copernicus‚ there were major contributors to astronomy and its advancement. Four of the major contributors are Tycho Brache‚ Johannes Keplar‚ Galileo
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Ancient Greece influenced Western Civilization in many ways. Many ideas of the Ancient Greeks came from the city-state of Athens. The Greek culture has had a very large impact on the way people have lived. The Ancient Greek civilization made significant contributions to western civilization in the areas of government‚ philosophy‚ and math. The Ancient Greeks made many contributions to Western Civilization in the area of Government. Government is a system of control citizens‚ societies
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mathematics as a whole‚ he was not alone in his work‚ his endeavors‚ or his ideas. He certainly was not the first to come up with these theories or rules for geometry either. Before there was Euclid‚ there was Thales of Miletus. Thales‚ along with other mathematicians or “geometers” laid some of the foundation for Euclid to compile in order to write the Elements centuries later. Thales was a “renaissance man” well ahead of his time‚ dabbling in such subjects as astronomy‚ engineering‚ philosophy and of course
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Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson is an African-American physicist and mathematician. She was born on august 26 ‚ 1918. Apparently‚ she is still alive and she is 98 years old.She was born in White Sulphur Spring ‚ West Virginia.She worked at NASA for 33 years.She was hired by NACA in 1953 to work as a human computer and retired from NASA in 1986.She started high school at the age of 10 and at the age of 18 ‚ she graduated summa cum laude with degrees in mathematics and French.She has been honored
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M.C. Escher By: Mercedies Moser Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher was born on June 17‚ 1898‚ in the Dutch province of Friesland. His parents‚ George Arnold Escher and Sarah Gleichman Escher‚ had three sons of which Maurits was the youngest. The Escher family was living in Leeuwarden in 1898‚ where George served as Chief Engineer for a government bureau. The family lived in a grand house named "Princessehof‚" which would later become a museum and host exhibitions of M.C. Escher’s works. Young M
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PYTHAGORAS OF SAMOS Pythagoras of Samos‚ more commonly known as Pythagoras is recognized as the world’s first mathematician. Pythagoras’ image is mysterious because none of his writings are published‚ and the ‘society he led‚ half religious and half scientific‚ followed a code of secrecy’ (O’Connor and Robertson‚ 1993). He was born c575 BC in Samos‚ Greece‚ and was killed in c495 BC. Details about Pythagoras can be found in early biographical writings who would write of him having ‘divine powers’
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which is obviously supporting the Anglophone nationalism of labour policies towards people with foreign backgrounds. In this manner‚ a Chinese mathematician with a similar education to a Canadian mathematician would be forced to gain Canadian academic credentials and learn English in order to find a job that pays on an equal scale to the Canadian mathematician. Since math is a “universal language”‚ it obvious that the Anglophone cultural and ethnic policies of the Canadian government are being culturally
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proportional to the points of the star by a ratio of 1: 1.618. The golden ratio appeared so much in Geometry‚ as stated above with the pentagram example‚ that it intrigued the Ancient Greeks. They studied the ratio for most of the same reasons mathematicians study it today. They found it to have unique and interesting properties. It is said that the Parthenon‚ among other Greek architecture have many proportions approximate to the golden ratio. Other classical buildings and structures have been said
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irregular shapes that are a far cry from the normal circle or square. It is an object of symmetry that uses components to create the picture of a self-similar entity. Fractals first appeared on the scene in 1918 due to the mathematician‚ Felix Hausdroff. A Poland mathematician by the name of Beniot B. Mandelbrot began the term fractals. Fractals originated from the Latin term fractus meaning broken or fractured. It is a series of self-similar images repeated; The Koch snowflake‚ the Mandelbrot set
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century Physics explained the processes of the natural world successfully‚ for the most part. There were still many facets of the universe that were an enigma to physicists. Mathematicians could indeed illustrate patterns in nature but there were many aspects of Mother Nature that remained a mystery to Physicists and Mathematicians alike. Mathematics is an integral part of physics. It provides an order and a guide to thinking; it shows the relationship between many physical phenomenons. The error in
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