EUCLID: The Man Who Created a Math Class Euclid of Alexandria was born in about 325 BC. He is the most prominent mathematician of antiquity best known for his dissertation on mathematics. He was able to create "The Elements" which included the composition of many other famous mathematicians together. He began exploring math because he felt that he needed to compile certain things and fix certain postulates and theorems. His book included‚ many of Eudoxus’ theorems‚ he perfected many of Theaetetus’s
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Geometry (Greek γεωμετρία; geo = earth‚ metria = measure)‚ Its beginnings can be traced in ancient Egypt or early or before 1700 B.C. Due to necessity‚ every time the Nile River inundated and deposited fertile soil along the bank‚ the early Egyptian had to solve the problem of size and boundaries of land along the Nile River. Changes happened in the contour of the land had caused confusion among landowners. So a system of making boundaries‚ measuring lengths and areas had to be discovered
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Ethics Reflection Paper Lourdes Munoz STR/581 Strategic Planning & Implementation September 2nd‚ 2010 Gary Solomon Abstract Ethics and Social responsibility resides in an important set of our own personal values. When it comes to Business matter and operation the customer must feel confidence and this has been taken for granted several times on recent corporate scandals and collapses‚ a perfect example of missed conducted ethic and responsibility is Enron. Is extremely important for companies
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Pediatric Reflections Paper Prior to beginning the pediatric clinical rotation at the Bethany Children’s Center‚ I was very certain that I would not like it and nothing could change my mind. I felt like it would be too sad to see the children in their various conditions and read the stories of how they were placed in the children’s center. I also feared actually performing nursing skills on pediatric patients. I believed that it would be nearly impossible to catheterize a child; after all‚ we barely
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I did my interview with a relative who we’ll just call “Sarah” for the remainder of this paper for confidential reasons. Sarah has been struggling with her addiction since the age of 28. She started experimenting with drugs in her late teens. First it was marijuana‚ all of her friends and even family members were smoking the drug. By the time she reached her earl y 20’s Sarah started experimenting with cocaine which eventually lead to her addiction to crack cocaine. By the time Sarah was addicted
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Rhea Mae A. Goyena BSBA-HRD-I The Cove (A Reflection Paper) This movie brings all the drama of a spy movie to its telling of the story of the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji‚ Japan‚ on the island of Honshu‚ and the police surveillance of the filmmakers‚ the cameras disguised as rocks‚ the thermal imaging‚ infrared video‚ and sneaking around at night contribute to the power of the film. The process of filming the slaughter has a secret ops feel which is exciting but what is really engaging
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Nacirema Reflection Paper As Filipinos‚ we believe that our way of life is inferior to all others but for other cultures they think theirs are superior to the rest. This feeling isn’t something that many people want to have‚ but it happens over time as a person becomes integrated into their own culture. Change is typically hard and being able to look at a completely new culture or way of life as normal doesn’t come naturally to most. However‚ with time and patience many can overcome the ethnocentrism
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Quadrilateral just means "four sides" (quad means four‚ lateral means side). Any four-sided shape is a Quadrilateral. But the sides have to be straight‚ and it has to be2-dimensional. A quadrilateral is defined as any two-dimensional‚ four-sided shape that has four vertices with interior angles that equal 360 degrees. There are several quadrilateral variations that include parallelograms‚ rectangles‚ rhombuses‚ squares‚ trapezoids‚ and kites. Quadrilaterals * Parallelogram – A parallelogram
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------------------------------------------------- Polynomial long division From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia In algebra‚ polynomial long division is an algorithm for dividing a polynomial by another polynomial of the same or lower degree‚ a generalised version of the familiar arithmetic technique called long division. It can be done easily by hand‚ because it separates an otherwise complex division problem into smaller ones. Sometimes using a shorthand version called synthetic division is
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Conjecture-unproven statement that is based on observations Counterexample-an example showing a conjecture is false collinear points-points that lie on the same line coplanar points-points that lie on the same plane point-has no dimension line-extends in 1 direction plane-extends in 2 dimensions postulate/axioms-rules accepted w/o proof . POSTULATE 2 – SEGMENT ADDITION POSTULATE. IF B IS BETWEEN A AND C THEN AB+BC=AC. IF AB+BC=AC THEN B IS BETWEEN A AND C DISTANCE FORMULA (X2-X1)2+(Y2-Y1)2
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