Nasar’s book A Beautiful Mind‚ gives a look into the great mathematician‚ John Nash’s spiral into schizophrenia almost ruining his work. Both characters must overcome their illness to achieve their grand goals. In Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet suffers from constant depression. Throughout the play‚ Hamlet shows a "general feeling of sadness... a sense of worthlessness... or suicidal thoughts" (Harris and Turkington
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Katherine influence the future of women alike with their incredibly helpful roles in the space program that would blaze a trail for mathematicians and engineers alike. We can see this in multiple examples throughout the book‚ with one of them being Katherine Johnson‚ one of the first women to ever be in an editorial meeting‚ paving the way for other women engineers and mathematicians to be included in these meetings and eventually allowing for many to get into higher ranking positions. More influential seen
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As students‚ we are taught the basics about mathematics. What the core properties of addition‚ subtraction‚ multiplication and division mean. How they work‚ and if we are lucky‚ we go into a little history of these methods. For those of us who have learned history‚ we learned that the basis for modern mathematics came from the Greeks and their writings. While this is correct‚ to truly understand the historical aspect of mathematics and its origins‚ one must study a time before the Greeks‚ when math
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BIOGRAPHY OF GEORG SIMON OHM Georg Simon Ohm (16 March 1787 – 6 July 1854) was a Bavarian (German) physicist and mathematician. As a high school teacher‚ Ohm began his research with the new electrochemical cell‚ invented by Italian scientist Alessandro Volta. Using equipment of his own creation‚ Ohm found that there is a direct proportionality between the potential difference (voltage) applied across a conductor and the resultant electric current. This relationship is known as Ohm’s law. Ohm
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our predecessors’ opportunities‚ especially if they were ‘respectable’ women‚ were nearly non-existent. Hypatia‚ however‚ defies all such qualifiers.” Hypatia’s Accomplishments “Hypatia of Alexandria was‚ simply‚ the last great Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher. She was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics. By writing a commentary on The Conics of Apollonius of Perga which divided cones into sections by a plane‚ Hypatia made geometry intelligible
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GOTTLEB FREGE- Summary of Lecture by Professor Priest In the beginning of the lecture‚ professor Priest introduces to the audience the contributions of a German mathematician‚ logician‚ and philosopher‚ Gottleb Frege. Priest begins with a brief story of an encounter in 1903 between two philosophers‚ Gottleb Frege and Bertrand Russell. Russell sends a letter to Frege‚ critiquing his findings in his second book‚ The Foundations of Arithmetic. Russell argues that even though he was impressed by Frege’s
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“There are no absolute distinctions between what is true and what is false”. Discuss this claim. Theory of Knowledge Name: XXXXXXX Instructor: XXXXXXX IB Candidate Number: XXXX-XXX May 2011 Word count: 1407 There is a small shudder that crawls through my spine whenever someone claims that they are in the search of an “absolute truth”; If the claim is not confined within the realm of mathematics‚ it makes even less sense to be able to claim such truth. An absolute is a statement that claims to
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length of the hypotenuse‚ and a and b represent the lengths of the other two sides. The Pythagorean theorem is named after the Greek mathematician Pythagoras (ca. 570 BC—ca. 495 BC)‚ who by tradition is credited with its discovery and proof‚[2][3] although it is often argued that knowledge of the theorem predates him. There is evidence that Babylonian mathematicians understood the formula‚ although there is little surviving evidence that they used it in a mathematical framework.[4][5] The theorem
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Series The Fibonacci Series is a sequence of numbers first created by Leonardo Fibonacci (fibo-na-chee) in 1202. It is a deceptively simple series‚ but its ramifications and applications are nearly limitless. It has fascinated and perplexed mathematicians for over 700 years‚ and nearly everyone who has worked with it has added a new piece to the Fibonacci puzzle‚ a new tidbit of information about the series and how it works. Fibonacci mathematics is a constantly expanding branch of number
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Your Potential as a Scientist‚ Mathematician‚ or Engineer Address through specific and concrete examples what characteristics you have that best demonstrate your affinity and aptitude for being a good scientist. What have you done that illustrates scientific attitude‚ curiosity‚ inventiveness‚ initiative? How does your experience suggest future success as a scientist‚ mathematician or engineer?* 3000 Major Scientific Question What is a major scientific question in your field whose answer you believe
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