Essays Tagged: "Geometry"
Blaise Pascal
very curious, oneday at the age of twelve while studying with his tutor, he asked about thestudy of geometry. After this he began to give up his play time to persue thestudy of geometry. After only a ... rrespondence with Fermat about thistime shows that he was then thurning his attention to analytical geometryand physics. At this time he repeated Torricelli's experiments, by which thepressure of the ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Indus Valley Civilization and Modern India
heir findings in math to help them when searching the stars. The people developed the beginnings of geometry and algebra. They created the idea of zero and the decimal system. They were the first peop ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Biography on Robert Hooke
demonstrating new experiments at the Society's weekly meetings. After that he became a professor of Geometry at Gresham College in London. He died on March 3, 1703.Robert Hooke's book Micrographia pla ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
International Relations of Strategic Geometry
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF ASIASTRATEGIC GEOMETRY'This is the only region in the world where so many combinations and permutations of two- th ... egional chessboard with all their complexities and variations.'introductionThe concept of strategic geometry comprises the notion that that the interactions and interconnections between a number of po ... can be seen in terms of geometric patterns of strategic configurations. It can be a case of simple geometry, in which A interacts with B: but in a more complex system such as that of Asia, with the p ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Piero Della Francesca- this is about 360 words long and gives an overview of his career as an artist.
ancesca was an early Italian renaissance artist with an individualstyle and perspective that linked geometry and art together to create works ofintense religious value. He believed that forms should h ... together to create works ofintense religious value. He believed that forms should have the purity ofgeometry, and was dubbed the "monarch of painting" by Luca Pacioli. Histheories and perspectives hav ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Biography of the great mathematican Eratosthenes.
sumption that the Earth is round and that the sun's rays are parallel. Eratosthenes remembered from geometry that the size of the Earth's center between Alexandria and Syrene equaled the size of the a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Greek Contributions to Thought and Science.
its premises, and made notable discoveries of theorems by a rigid adherence to deductive reasoning. Geometry became the basic instrument for measuring all things. Plato examined the difference between ... the permanent truths that could only be found through rational thought. The unchanging elements of geometry were the measures of this ideal, permanent thought-world. This union of logic with geometry ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Blaise pascal.
ath 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 ... mathematics and physics and developed several important theorems and laws, especially in projective geometry and hydrostatics. One of Blaise Pascal¹s most important works during this time was on ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Pascal and his life table.
the mathematical theory of probability, and he also made serious contributions to number theory and geometry.In 1646 Pascal learned of Toricelli's experiments with the barometer and the theory of air ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Concepts of Computer Science and Programming: OOP and others
data. Computers programming are a tools of computer science, as a ruler and protractor are tools of geometry. Programming is defined in Princeton University as1.setting an order and time for planned e ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
A report on a few different feild in radiological jobs in mississippi.
omputer skills, english composition, emergency medical technology, physics, health occupations, and geometry. In Mississippi, nine colleges offer a degree in radiological technology. A few examples ar ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Hossein Valamanesh art review
working away form the family. During his early days in school, Valamanesh had a strong interest in geometry and mathematics, and showed a particular talent for drawing. After three years at high scho ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The purpose of education should be to create an academic environment that is separate from the outside world
the application of theory is just hot air.As we can see, without practice any theory is groundless. Geometry emerged as the tool for ancient Egyptian to measure their fields. Chemistry arise from the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Greek contributions to the Western Civilization
example would be from the columns that where used on the Parthenon. Also we get many principles of geometry from the Greeks. The Olympics started in Greece and are still used today as a way for count ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Classification of Sciences
tics consists of five categories; these are general mathematics systems, algebra and number theory, geometry, probabilities and mathematical statistics. Geometry may be defined as the branch of mathem ...
Subjects: Science Essays
What did Plato contribute to Mathematics?
ne hundred years. Over the main entrance to the university was the phrase, "Let No One Un-versed in Geometry Enter." Those who studied at Plato's Academy made most of the major mathematical innovation ... philosopher and mathematician. He taught courses including arithmetic, theory of numbers, advanced geometry, and astronomy through technical lectures with abstract and philosophical leanings.Plato's ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Essay on the square root of 2
k mathematics because it created two divisions including no longer just numbers (or algebra) but to geometry. It has been called a "scientific event of the highest importance." Geometry deals with dis ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Physics in 3D Worlds - Relating Video Games to Schoolwork
volved in the 3D world and they are made up of (visually) just many geometric shapes. Obviously, if geometry were involved in these 3D worlds (all of them, in fact), then that would mean that geometri ... used [or, at the least, would help sooner or later]. But, you would be wondering how or why geometry would be used in 3D video games (and for that matter, 3D worlds). Especially in coding 3D a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Programming Languages
Leonardo da Vinci and math
tist known as Andrea del Verrocchio. There he learned to create his own masterpieces while studying Geometry and mastering perspective. Later on, da Vinci became the head of the workshop and in 1477 d ... 1516, he suffered from paralysis in his right hand and gave up on using a ruler and compass in his geometry problems. Three years later, Leonardo da Vinci died May 2nd is Cloux, France. Da Vinci neve ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
My Mathematics Philosophy
classroom. The standards present goals in the mathematical areas of number and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis and probability. The five process standards are problem sol ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics