Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont on June 19‚ 1623 as the third of four children and the only son to Étienne Pascal. Blaise grew up without a mother‚ who died when he was only three years old. His father had dissident educational views and decided to educate his son himself‚ however‚ Étienne decided that Blaise was not to study mathematics before the age of fifteen. Therefore‚ he removed all mathematic texts from their house. Although he was told not to study mathematics‚ Blaise became curious
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AGAINST THE GODS The Remarkable Story of Risk By Peter L. Bernstein I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by Against the Gods. I expected this book to be a typical dry book on a given financial subject‚ detailing use‚ application‚ and theory. I completely took for granted the fact that math‚ particularly risk‚ has history. The author did a fantastic job of painting a picture and explaining how‚ why and when concepts we use today came into being. While reading this book I became excited
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just his hobby‚ Fermat practically founded Number Theory‚ and also played key roles in the discoveries of Analytic Geometry and Calculus. He was also an excellent geometer‚ discovering a triangle ’s Fermat point‚ and in collaboration with Blaise Pascal discovered probability theory. They say fellow
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be worked out on paper. Calculators expanded the math capabilities of everyone from high school students to businessmen. The original compact calculator was the abacus‚ developed in China in the ninth century. The young French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the first adding machine in 1642‚ a clever device driven by gears and capable of performing mechanical addition and subtraction. The first commercially successful adding machine was developed in 1886 by William Seward Burroughs The "Millionaire
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ve primary differences between work and academic writing are 1. Writing at work focuses on problem solving. Unlike academic writing where you write to persuade your professor how much you know‚ at work you write to help you perform your job. Primarily‚ you are trying to achieve a specific goal and to complete a job task. 2. Work-related writing targets multiple audiences with different perspectives. In college our primary and‚ typically‚ only audience is our professor. Professors approach
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to various curves that was equivalent to differentiation. He obtained a technique for finding the centers of gravity for various plane and solid figures. Also‚ he is considered to be one of the founders of the probability theory along with Blaise Pascal. Fermat was the first person known to have evaluated the integral of general power functions. He made contributions in the field of optics and provided a law on light and travel. He wrote a few papers about calculus‚ before Issac Newton and Gottfried
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The main theme of A Prayer for Owen Meany is religious faith -- specifically‚ the relationship between faith and doubt in a world in which there is no obvious evidence for the existence of God. John writes on the first page of the book that Owen Meany is the reason that he is a Christian‚ and ensuing story is presented as an explanation of the reason why. Though the plot of the novel is quite complicated‚ the explanation for Owen’s effect on Johnny’s faith is extremely simple; Owen’s life is a
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Blaise Pascal‚ at age 19‚ invented the Pascaline as an aid for his father who was a tax collector. Pascal built 50 of this gear-driven one-function calculator but couldn’t sell many because of their exorbitant cost and because they really weren’t that accurate. Up until the present age when car dashboards went digital‚ the odometer portion of a car’s speedometer used the very same mechanism as the Pascaline to increment the next wheel after each full revolution of the prior wheel. Pascal was a child
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I think my favourite books were the ones that showcased works of the Grimm brothers. I also became very fond of Disney stories that I have come to love because of the movies the franchise produced. Then later on came the popular series by Francine Pascal called Sweet Valley High. I remember getting overly engrossed with the storyline‚ having collected almost all editions of the series. There would also be times that I would bring a Sweet Valley High book to school and read it during recess or lunch
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W. K. Clifford (1845-1879) was a British philosopher and mathematician. He made a compelling argument regarding ethics of belief. In module two reading‚ he stated that it is always wrong to make a claim without sufficient evidence. William James (1842-1910)‚ on the other hand‚ a philosopher and psychologist‚ took a different approach‚ in which he shared a different view concerning religious belief. Notably‚ both evidentialism and nonevidentialism approach have some merit and validity. I will assess
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