Essays Tagged: "german mathematician"

Carl Gauss

t to cover one of Gauss's formulasKarl Gauss~Biography~Karl Gauss lived from 1777 to 1855. He was a German mathematician, physician, and astronomer. He was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on April 30th ... membership to the Russian and French Academies of Sciences. However, he remained in his hometown in Germany until his death in 1855.~Acomplishments~During his Teen years, Karl Gauss developed many mat ...

(3 pages) 54 0 2.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and scientist whodominated the mathematical community during and after his life ... y of non-Euclidean geometry, and important contributions tothe theory of numbers.Born in Brunswick, Germany, on April 30, 1777, Johann FriedrichCarl Gauss showed early and unmistakable signs of being ...

(3 pages) 73 0 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

How women were treated during the enlightment. A very opiniated paper

having anger displayed at them and a few accepting them as their equivalent.Gottfried Kirch, a male German astronomer, stated that his wife Maria Winkelmann, spotted a comet while he was sleeping, the ... espect for the accomplishments of women. This document goes with no other.Gottfried Leibniz, a male German mathematician and philosopher, stated that women are more capable of "contemplating the good ...

(3 pages) 47 2 3.0 Jul/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Issac Newton

s time. Newton was one of the inventors of the branch of mathematics called calculus (the other was German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz). He also solved the mysteries of light and optics, f ... ree laws of motion. Newton applied these laws to Kepler's laws of orbital motion--formulated by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler--and derived the law of universal gravitation. Newton is probably ...

(4 pages) 86 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

History Of Computers

add sums up to with figures long. Pascal's device used a base of ten to accomplish this. In 1694, a German mathematician and philosopher, Gottfried Wilhem von Leibniz improved the Pascaline by creatin ... This increased funding for computer development projects and increased technical progress. By 1941 German engineer Konrad Zuse had developed a computer, the Z3, to design airplanes and missiles. The ...

(9 pages) 17 0 1.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss

Karl Friedrich Gauss was born in 1777 and died in 1855. He was a German mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. Gauss was educated at the Caroline College, Brunswi ...

(2 pages) 4393 0 5.0 May/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics