Assignment 1 Miss. Dzigbodi Ama Agbodra. A brief history of Mathematics. Ecs/13/01/0396 The area of study known as the history of mathematics is primarily an investigation into the origin of discoveries in mathematics and‚ to a lesser extent‚ an investigation into the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge‚ written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light
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Environment The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. ~Plato Maria Montessori believed that human intelligence is no longer based on natural intelligence but on mathematical intelligence. Humans have moved beyond the innate survival instincts of early humans and moved toward an analytical awareness of the world. Math is more than math facts and computations. It deals with shape‚ space‚ patterns‚ symbols and the relationships found therein. Mathematics: Birth to Age Three Learning about patterns
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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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Mathematics in Gaming: Understanding can help you win! Prafull S Chapate1 Vimaltai Tidke Convent‚ Narendranagar Nagpur-440027‚ Maharashtra‚ India Abstract In this paper‚ we present you detail relationship between mathematics and some of the games you encountered in your daily life. Mathematical knowledge of these games gives you an edge over your mathematically ignorant opponent and who knows may help you win the game and money. 1. Introduction For entertainment many people play
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He was a Greek mathematician and is probably best known for his work Elements. Since little is known about the personal life of Euclid‚ it is difficult to do a biography on him. His chief work‚ entitled Elements‚ is a comprehensive essay on mathematics. It includes 13 volumes that entail such subjects as plane geometry‚ dealing with the properties of flat surfaces and of planar figures‚ such as the triangle; proportion in general‚ a particular kind of relation between groups of numbers or quantities;
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Mathematics is the Sphere of Life All is Numbers‚ is still echoing from the walls of the White City‚ when once the great Pythagoras said it on an early sunny morning to his disciples. No great discoveries in history every made‚ without the intervention of this mystical ray we call Mathematics. Einstein in his general relativity theory‚ to prove that the path of a ray of light‚ in the presence of a gravitational field‚ is curved and never straight used intensely the non-Euclidean geometry
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DISCRETE MATHEMATICS Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete rather than continuous. In contrast to real numbers that have the property of varying "smoothly"‚ the objects studied in discrete mathematics – such as integers‚ graphs‚ and statements in logic – do not vary smoothly in this way‚ but have distinct‚ separated values. Discrete mathematics therefore excludes topics in "continuous mathematics" such as calculus and analysis. Discrete objects
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2012-The Year of Mathematics P.Bhattacharyya [pic] [pic] (GH Hardy ‚ Ramanujan and Littlewood) The great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on the 22nd of December 1887 in Erode‚ Tamilnadu. In a function held in the Centenary Hall of Madras University on the 26th of December 2011 marking the 125th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan‚ the Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh proclaimed: “Our
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TOK Reflection: Mathematics To what extent is math relevant to your life and the lives of others you know and how can it become an even more viable area of knowledge. “In mathematics I can report no deficience‚ except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the Pure Mathematics.” Roger Bacon (1214-1294) Mathematics: the abstract science of number‚ quantity‚ and space; a subject considered by many to be useless‚ a waste of time‚ and too difficult. “When am
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in the usual decimal notation (see the table for its representation in some other bases). The constant is also known as Archimedes Constant‚ although this name is rather uncommon in modern‚ western‚ English-speaking contexts. Many formulae from mathematics‚ science‚ and engineering involve π‚ which is one of the most important mathematical and physical constants.[5] π is an irrational number‚ which means that its value cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction m/n‚ where m and n are integers. Consequently
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