Mathematics Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (233) essays
Mathematics essays:
Solving and Checking Equations
... And Checking Equations In math there are many different types of equations to solve and check. Some of them are easy and some are hard but all of them have some steps that need to be followed. To solve the problem 2(7x-4)-4(2x-6)=3x+31 you must follow many ...
Vaughan Fredrick Randal Jones
... Auckland Grammar School, located in Auckland. After being awarded a University Entrance Scholarship and a Gilles Scholarship to assist him in his study at the University of Auckland he left school. He had also received a Phillips Industries Bursary. Jones entered the University of Auckland ...
The History of Pi
... Pi is an old math formula used to calculate the area and circumference of a circle. It is a formula that is over four thousand years old, and was first used by the Babylonians and Egyptians. Babylonians calculated pi ...
Assignment regarding the fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio - maths assignemnt
... many triangles of different sizes if continued along for many rows. You can see this in figure 1.6 Figure 1.5 Figure 1.6 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I found a site that showed this very well with many pictures, http://www.alunw.freeuk.com/pascal ...
Sir Isaac Newton
... of a satellite or the profits of a corporation. 4,000 years ago, the Babylonians investigated areas and volumes, and more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek scientists Archimedes and Apollonius found areas and tangents for many curved figures. The French mathematician Rene Descarted combined ...
Carl Friedrich Gauss
... of creating a polygon of n sides. Gauss proved the possibility by constructing a regular 17 sided polygon into a circle using only a straight edge and compass. Barely 30 years old, already having made landmark discoveries in geometry, algebra, and number theory Gauss was appointed director of ...
Blaise pascal.
... and got rid of all of the math books in their house. However, Blaise was very interested in mathematics and started to work on geometry by himself at the age of 12. At the age of 14, Blaise started going with his father to some meetings of a religious group ...
Card Counting Paper - Statistics
... a professor at MIT and later an adjunct professor of finance and mathematics at the University of California at Irvine. In reading from the "About the Author" section of his book entitled "The Mathematics of ...
Selecting and Testing Hypotheses Simulation
... of significance is specified before completing the test. The risk of a Type I error occurring can be controlled by the person doing the research. The probability of Type I error can be reduced by increasing the probability of making Type II error and ...
Girolamo Cardano , A essay about a notable mathematician
... University of Pavia war broke out sending him to the University of Padua. During this period Girolamo's father died but Girolamo became "rector" of the university. Girolamo was left a small inheritance from his father but he quickly spent it and ...