Essays Tagged: "Mathematician"
The Classic World
of science,literature, and ethics. These contributions have influenced the modern world today. Manymathematicians, astronomers, and scientists contributed to the development of many of theluxuries we ... r societytoday. Some of the major contributions from the Classical World is in the field of science.Mathematicians, astronomers, and scientists made important contributions that formedthe basic elemen ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Greek Literature
Greek literatureGREEK LITERATURE. The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . ... dited with being the first person to measure the Earth's circumference.Much that was written by the mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes has been preserved. Euclid is known for his 'Elements', much of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Thomas Jefferson
n of many different talents. He knew several languages, including Latin and Greek. He was an expert mathematician who was even able to calculate when eclipses of the sun and moon would occur. He could ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Galileo Galilei
rsity as a medical student in 1581 and became aprofessor of mathematics at Padua. An astronomer and mathematician, Galileo was, unfortunately for himself, a man aheadof his time. Galileo discovered th ... discovered and enhanced many scientific discoveries of his time period and was highly regarded as a Mathematician andNatural Philosopher. Galileo was persecuted for his views on Earth's relationship w ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics
Pythagoras
Pythagoras (560-480BC)Do any of you know who is considered the first true mathematician? Well, the answer is Pythagoras of Samos. He was a Greek philosopher and religious lea ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Jurassic Park
blame. Near the end of the book, while the humans are fighting off the velociraptors, Malcolm (the mathematician) delivers a long and didactic speech about how science is to blame for messing up the ... ist graduate student assistant, Ellie Sattler; and also John Malcolm, a brilliant and idiosyncratic mathematician whose field of expertise is chaos theory, which deals with turbulence and unpredictabi ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
THe life and accomplishments of Benjerman bannaker
Benjamin Banneker was a self-educated mathematician and astronomer. Banneker was America?s first black man of science. The name Banneker o ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History
The Outer and Inner Worlds of H.G. Wells and R.L. Stevenson
warm fire. We also find educated men, to represent the best of the Human Race. These men include a Mathematician, a Doctor and a Physician.The Time Traveller tells his story in dim light; he tells ho ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
essay made me pass summer school. I did expect this much from you.Gauss was a German scientist and mathematician. People call him thefounder of modern mathematics. He also worked in astronomy and phy ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
About Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). The German scientist and mathematician Gauss is frequently he was called the founder of modern mathematics. His work is astro ... s student. But it is often pointed out that at first Gauss was undecided whether he should become a mathematician or a philologist. The reason for this indecision was probably that humanists at that t ... his sleep. He was seventy-seven years old.BIBLIOGRAPHYGindikin, S.G., Stories about physicists and mathematicians, Russia, Moscow, 'Nauka', 1982 (in Russian).Hall, T., Carl Friedrich Gauss, The Massa ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Georg Cantor
ng, he became so fed up with the idea that he mustered up the courage to beg his father to become a mathematician. Finally, just before entering college, his father let Georg study mathematics.In 1862 ... Berlin he studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. There he studied under some of the greatest mathematicians of the day including Kronecker and Weierstrass. After receiving his doctorate in 1867 ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Georg Cantor
ng, he became so fed up with the idea that he mustered up the courage to beg his father to become a mathematician. Finally, just before entering college, his father let Georg study mathematics.In 1862 ... Berlin he studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. There he studied under some of the greatest mathematicians of the day including Kronecker and Weierstrass. After receiving his doctorate in 1867 ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Book Report on Micheal Crichton's LOST WORLD
Characters: The main character in the book is Ian Malcolm,a middle aged mathematician and a little bit of an explorer.The man who set up the exploration, Richard Levine, is ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton
ings of action, reactions, thrill, nervousness, and their beliefs.Ian Malcolm, a very knowledgeable mathematician, decides to go to the island of Isla Nublar to observe the biological preserve that a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Robert hooke
ned out to be extremely important to Hooke's future. Among these were the astronomer Seth Ward, the mathematician Lawrence Rooke, the inventor William Petty, the natural philosopher William Neile and ... intances left a particular mark on Hooke's life and his subsequent epistemic interests: that of the mathematician turned architect Christoper Wren, who became a lifelong friend, associate and object o ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Rene Descartes and a discription of his dream and evil demon conjectures, method of doubt, and clear and distinct testing. Also, the bad and good of his theory (opinion).
Rene Descartes (1596-1650) was not only a philosopher but also a mathematician and scientist. As a philosopher, he used skepticism as a means of finding the truth of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
An essay that talks about the life of Lewis Carroll
Lodovicus," then simplifying it with Lewis Carroll. He was an English writer, a photographer, and a mathematician. Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865,he then wrote Through The Look ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Biography on Galileo Galilei
on, and the appearance of Venus going through phase. Galileo was an Italian physicist, philosopher, mathematician, inventor, discoverer, and an astronomer.Galileo was the oldest son of Vincenzo Galile ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
GREEK LITERATURE.
The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . ... ited with being the first person to measure the Earth's circumference. Much that was written by the mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes has been preserved. Euclid is known for his 'Elements', much of ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
This is an essay on the life of Aristotle, one of the greatest philosophers in greek history.
Aristotle was not only a mathematician, but also made important contributions by organizing deductive logic. He believed that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy