Maria Gaetana Agnesi Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1719-1799). Born in Milan‚ she was a gifted scholar. She was a scientist‚ mathematician and later in her life she devoted herself to religious beliefs. She is most famous for the Witch of Agnesi. Her father married 3 times and had 21 children‚ which she was the oldest child. Her first essay was published in Latin when she was only 9 years old. She wrote in defense of higher education for woman. By age 13 she learned and spoke more than 6 languages. In
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The Beautiful Mind Director: Ron Howard Writer: Akiva Goldsman‚ Sylvia Nasar(author) Cast: Russell Crowe‚ Jennifer Connelly‚ Ed Harris‚ Paul Bettany… In ’’A Beautiful Mind‚’’ her biography of the mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr.‚ Sylvia Nasar quotes one of his colleagues: ’’All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms- an ice palace. But they also live in the common world where things are transient‚ ambiguous‚ subject to vicissitudes
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Probably because of the simplicity of its definition‚ the concept of π has become entrenched in popular culture to a degree far greater than almost any other mathematical construct. It is‚ perhaps‚ the most common ground between mathematicians and non-mathematicians. Reports on the latest‚ most-precise calculation of π (and related stunts) are common news items. The current record for the decimal expansion of π‚ if verified‚ stands at 5 trillion digits. The Greek letter π‚ often spelled out pi
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Abigail Thompson Gabrielle Roseberry September 7‚ 2010 4th period Professor Abigail Thompson is one of the many female mathematicians around. With a B.A. received from Wellesley College in 1979 and a PhD received from Rutgers University in 1986‚ she now studies combinational methods in 3-dimensional manifolds or topology. Topology is the study of how geometric objects are basically connected to themselves. Her contributions to the world of mathematics obtain a number of new classifications
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Zu Chongzhi’s lifetime and achievements Zu Chongzhi’s ancestry was from modern Baoding‚ Hebei. To flee from the ravage of war‚ his grandfather Zu Chang moved to the Yangtze. Zu was born in Jiankang in 429 A.D. Both his grandfather and his father all worked in the government of science and engineering. As a result‚ he started learning astronomy and mathematics from a very young age. He didn’t have any other hobbies‚ he only interested in his studies of science. He passed away in 500 A.D. He lived
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After watching the movie‚ A Beautiful Mind (2001)‚ I would not imagine how I could face the most chronic‚ disabling disease like schizophrenia. However‚ the great mathematician John Nash has overcome schizophrenia by his own discipline and the support of his lovely wife‚ Alicia Nash. John Nash was known to be one of the greatest mathematicians during the 50’s. He later received the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics science in 1994 for his earlier discover. Since graduate school‚ John had lost his ability
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The Beal Conjecture Background Mathematicians have long been intrigued by Pierre Fermat’s famous assertion that Ax + Bx = Cx is impossible (as stipulated) and the remark written in the margin of his book that he had a demonstration or "proof". This became known as Fermat’s Last Theorem (FLT) despite the lack of a proof. Andrew Wiles proved the relationship in 1994‚ though everyone agrees that Fermat’s proof could not possibly have been the proof discovered by Wiles. Number theorists remain divided
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learned about the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. He recognized that arithmetic with Hindu-Arabic numerals is simpler and more efficient that with Roman numerals and so he traveled throughout the Mediterranean world to study under the leading Arab mathematicians of the time. Leonardo returned from his travels around 1200 and in 1202‚ age 32‚ he published Liber Abaci. Through the Liber Abaci he introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals to Europe. Liber Abaci is a book that Leonardo Fibonacci wrote in 1202. In
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Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564– 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist‚ mathematician‚ astronomer‚ and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy"‚ the "father of modern physics"‚ the "father of science"‚ and "the Father of Modern Science”. His contributions to observational
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Math Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat was born in Beaumont-de-Lomagne‚ France in August of 1601 and died in 1665. He is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of the seventeenth century. Fermat is considered to be one of the ’fathers’ of analytic geometry. Fermat along with Blaise Pascal is also considered to be one of the founders of probability theory. Fermat also made contributions in the field of optics and provided a law on light travel and made wrote a few papers about calculus
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