uncommon in the modern technological society that we live in. Perpetual surveillance and the precarious nature of the freedom of man under such circumstances‚ are not topics that only Kaczynski recognized as dangerous results of technology. Being a mathematician in such a pivotal technological era no doubt encouraged his fears of the potential power of technology to turn the tables and control humans instead because he likely understood the potentialities of the technology more than the average person
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basic engineering skills‚ which in many instances required a knowledge of the relationship between the square and the circle (usually satisfied by finding a reasonable approximation of π). Although there are no surviving records of individual mathematicians from this period‚ historians today know the values used by some ancient cultures. Here is a sampling of some cultures and the values that they used: Babylonians - 3 1/8‚ Egyptians - (16/9)^2‚ Chinese - 3‚ Hebrews - 3 (implied in the Bible‚ I Kings
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Babbage invent things like the Difference Engine and the analytical engine‚ both early computers designed to perform calculations‚. Later on‚ she was asked to translate an article from French into English by Luigi Federico Menabrea‚ an Italian mathematician. Lovelace interpreted the information and put in a few of her own ideas into her own article Sketch of the Analytical Machine. The article contained much of her original ideas‚ examples of what the machine can do‚ and the many calculations that
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In Alexandria‚ the second largest city in Egypt‚ one of the greatest mathematicians to ever exist on Earth was born in 325 BCE. This mathematician’s name was Euclid. He is said to be the son of Naucrates. Euclid was named after Euclid of Megara‚ a philosopher who lived one hundred years before him. Not only was Euclid a mathematician and a scientist‚ he was an author as well. Euclid’s most well-known writing was a series of books called “The Elements”. The Elements were on subjects like
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Biography - Aryabhata‚ the Indian mathematician MTH/110 December 10‚ 2012 Biography - Aryabhata‚ the Indian mathematician Aryabhata (476 CE – 550 CE) was the first Hindu mathematician and astronomers from India. He wrote couple of treatise about mathematics and astronomy. Some of them were lost. His most famous works Aryabhatiya completed in 499 CE and the Arya-Siddhanta. Aryabhatiya consists of 108 verses‚ in which Aryabhata wrote about the mathematics and astronomy at the age of 23
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Abstract A complex number is a number that can be written in the form of a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the value of the square root of negative one. In the form a + bi‚ a is considered the real part and the bi is considered the imaginary part. The goal of this project is show how the use of complex numbers originates in the history of mathematics. Introduction Complex numbers are very important component of mathematics. They enable us to solve any polynomial equation of degree
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to that point in time. Archimedes was the first person to calculate the value of pi. * Ptolemy- Ptolemy was an observer and mathematician who had written on astronomical topics such as conjunctions. He devised proofs and theorems in which he was able to evaluate pi. His calculations were pi= 3+17/120=3.14166. * William Jones- Jones was a mathematician‚ known for his proposal for the use of the symbol π for pi to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
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The French Connection‚ written by Christopher Dickey‚ published on Newsweek‚ May 28‚ 2012‚ is about the importance of the French mathematicians in the financial world‚ how they are made and trained‚ how they work‚ and how they’re judged every time there’s a recession or loss in a company they’re working with. In financial world‚ they are known as the quantitative analysts‚ or simply‚ quants. They are responsible in creating mathematical models for financial products that the “structure guys”—as called
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although he meant it to be negative. Issac Newton agreed with Descartes‚ and Albert Girad even went as far as to call these‚ “solutions impossible”. Although these people didn’t enjoy the thought of imaginary numbers‚ they couldn’t stop other mathematicians from believing that i might exist. (The History of Complex Numbers) Rafael Bombelli was a firm believer in imaginary numbers. However‚ since he couldn’t do anything with them people doubted him. He did understand that i times i should
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Hipparchus apparently wrote 12 books on the table of chords and became the founder of trigonometry. He was the first Greek mathematician to study triangular geometry. This study led him to write the 12 books. Other people have added to Hipparchus’ work‚ but the two people that stands out the most are were Menelaus (ca. AD 100) and Ptolemy (ca. AD 100). Menelaus was a Greek mathematician that created six books on tables of chords. He created a couple of triangle properties. Menelaus had a big hand in
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