THE DIVINITY OF NUMBER: The Importance of Number in the Philosophy of Pythagoras by Br. Paul Phuoc Trong Chu‚ SDB Pythagoras and his followers‚ the Pythagoreans‚ were profoundly fascinated with numbers. In this paper‚ I will show that the heart of Pythagoras’ philosophy centers on numbers. As true to the spirit of Pythagoras‚ I will demonstrate this in seven ways. One‚ the principle of reality is mathematics and its essence is numbers. Two‚ odd and even numbers signify the finite and
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Name: Math Manisa No.: 10740 Project 2 Regression Line The following table shows (for the years 1965 to 2000 and for people 18 and over) the total percentage of cigarette smokers‚ the percentage of males who are smokers‚ and the percentage of females who are smokers. Percentage of Smokers _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Year Total Population All
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A Sense of History: Some Components by Gerald W. Schlabach All students who graduate from a liberal arts college should take with them an indelible awareness of the following: 1. Some things happened before other things. Studying history is much more than the memorization of dates. But if we get things out of chronological order‚ we’ll inevitably get a lot of other things wrong too. Imagine that we are in a new city trying to find "408 N. 5th St.‚" but vandals have taken down the signs
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The greatest pain in life is not that of the physical kind. It is not loss. It is not death. But it is to be ignored. Excluded. Alone. I’m like a tree. A dead tree‚ who stands alone in a field of emptiness. Sadness. My bark is flaking‚ falling‚ fading. I am fading. My leaves curl and crumble. They are brown‚ dead‚ ugly. But you‚ you are a beautiful tree‚ whose branches stretch across the sky‚ far and wide. Whose leaves are a bright‚ luminescent green in the spring‚ and a rich‚ ruby red in the autumn
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THE IMPORTANCE OF MATHEMATICS W. T. Gowers It is with some disbelief that I stand here and prepare to address this gathering on the subject of the importance of mathematics. For a start‚ it is an extraordinary honour to be invited to give the keynote address at a millennium meeting in Paris. Secondly‚ giving a lecture on the significance of mathematics demands wisdom‚ judgment and maturity‚ and there are many mathematicians far better endowed than I am with these qualities‚ including several
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Learning is not only an essential skill to survive‚ it is also a requirement to attain a fulfilled life. Yet the public education system‚ where the majority of people are expected to learn‚ often overlook the process of learning. It is no wonder why one of the most accomplished thinkers‚ Albert Einstein‚ has said‚ “the only thing that interferes with my learning is my education” (qtd. In Silber 130). This quote embodies the current state of public education in the United States; a system that approaches
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History of imaginary numbers I is an imaginary number‚ it is also the only imaginary number. But it wasn’t just created it took a long time to convince mathematicians to accept the new number. Over time I was created. This also includes complex numbers‚ which are numbers that have both real and imaginary numbers and people now use I in everyday math. I was created because everyone needed it. At first the square root of a negative number was thought to be impossible. However‚ mathematicians soon
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value of r that minimizes this by taking the derivative‚ stetting it equal to 0‚ and solving for r. Use that to find h. You’ll find that the dimensions are different from an actual soda can‚ but I’m sure you can think of why this is the case. THE MATH PROBLEM: The surface area of a cylindrical aluminum can is measure of how much aluminum the can requires. If the can has a radius r and a height h‚ its surface area A and its volume V are given by the equations: A=2(pi)r^2 + 2(pi)rh and V=
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Misconceptions of the Sixth Sense: An Extension vs An Ability? The senses are basic: hearing‚ taste‚ smell‚ sight‚ and touch. These are the given senses that are apart of every living creature on earth. People have always wondered about the existence of the sixth sense. A sixth sense is a power of perception beyond the five senses. Many have theorized that the ability of the sixth sense is a skill that can be gained by appreciating nature‚ similar to the innate senses of an animal. The idea of
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THE REAL NUMBER SYSTEM The real number system evolved over time by expanding the notion of what we mean by the word “number.” At first‚ “number” meant something you could count‚ like how many sheep a farmer owns. These are called the natural numbers‚ or sometimes the counting numbers. Natural Numbers or “Counting Numbers” 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5‚ . . . * The use of three dots at the end of the list is a common mathematical notation to indicate that the list keeps going forever. At some point‚ the
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