Personal Biography François Viète (Latin: Franciscus Vieta; 1540 – 23 February 1603)‚ Seigneur de la Bigotière‚ was a French mathematician whose work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra‚ due to its innovative use of letters as parameters in equations. He was a lawyer by trade‚ and served as a privy councillor to both Henry III and Henry IV. Contribution to Mathematics in Detai: His first published work‚ the Canon mathematicus [Canon‚ 1579] has trigonometric tables computed
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Thesis Statement According to Joan Hinton‚ “As long as there is war‚ scientists will never be free‚ are we scientists going to spend our lives in slavery for madmen who want to destroy the world?” Joan Hinton wanted to use her gift as a mathematician to help people around the world; instead‚ she was deceitfully recruited to work on a project that would kill sixty – seventy thousand people and injure one hundred forty thousand more. Sentence Outline Backround *
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Euclid Euclid was a Greek mathematician and often known as the “Father of Geometry “.He was born around 300 B.C. He taught mathematics in Alexandria‚ Egypt‚ at the Alexandria library or "Museum"‚ and that he wrote the most enduring mathematical work of all time‚ the Stoicheia or Elements‚ a thirteen volume work. The Elements or Stoicheia is divided into thirteen books. The books go over plane geometry‚ arithmetic and number theory‚ irrational numbers‚ and solid geometry. Euclid organized the known
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Little is known about the life of the Greek mathematician Diophantus. However‚ his work led to one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time‚ Fermat’s last theorem. He was born in Alexandria somewhere between 200 and 214 BC. Alexandria was the center of Greek culture and knowledge and Diophantus belonged to the ‘Silver Age’ of Alexandria. Altough little is known about his life‚ according to his riddle‚ he got married when he was 33‚ had a son who lived for 42 years and was 84 when he died
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that of the Moon.” The motions of bodies was also a big contribution. Galileo’s theoretical and experimental work on the motions of bodies‚ actually was first looked at by another great scientist‚ Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton was an English mathematician‚ astronomer‚ theologian and physicist. One of the greatest. In my opinion he is the top 5 scientists from Science History. He was born on the 25th on December ‚ and died on 20 March. He studied various
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Calculus is the mathematical study of change‚[1] in the same way that geometry is the study of shape and algebra is the study of operations and their application to solving equations. It has two major branches‚ differential calculus (concerning rates of change and slopes of curves)‚ and integral calculus (concerning accumulation of quantities and the areas under curves); these two branches are related to each other by the fundamental theorem of calculus. Both branches make use of the fundamental
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mystical or other special relationship between a number and some coinciding observed (or perceived) events. It has many systems and traditions and beliefs. Numerology and numerological divination by systems such as isopsephy were popular among early mathematicians‚ such as Pythagoras‚ but are no longer considered part of mathematics and are regarded as pseudomathematics or pseudoscience by modern scientists.[1][2][3] Today‚ numerology is often associated with the paranormal‚ alongside astrology and similar
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system (National Defense Education Act of 1958 ). This act was signed because President Dwight Eisenhower saw the lack of mathematicians in 1957 because other industry were absorbing many mathematicians at that time‚ businesses such as defense. Also‚ college enrollment had been boosted from half a million in 1940 to 3.6 million in 1960‚ therefore the demand for more mathematicians to pass on the knowledge to the next generation was needed (National Defense Education Act). The last reason why the U.S
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right triangles by applying the relationships between the measures of its sides andangles to the study of similar triangles. However‚ the word “trigonometry” did not exist upon the birth of the subject‚ but was later introduced by the German mathematician and astronomer‚ Bartholomaeus Pitiscus in the title of his work‚ Trigonometria sive de solutione triangularum tractatus brevis et perspicius…‚ publishedin 1595 ii) In our days‚ we have a lot of use for trigonometry. We can use trigonometry
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John Nash Biography John Nash (June 13‚ 1928 – present) is a brilliant mathematician‚ specializing in economics. He was born n Westfield‚ West Virginia‚ into a family of three‚ he‚ his father – an electrical engineer‚ and his mother – a school teacher who pushed him to do many great things that led to his superb education and extraordinary mind. As a child‚ he had a quiet and withdrawn personality‚ but was very intelligent. He started reading at four‚ skipped a grade‚ and even learned Latin‚ all
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