Mathematics Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (233) essays
Mathematics essays:
The Magic of Vedic Mathematics
... use a calculator for working out even some of the easiest calculations. You may wonder what the people did when there was no calculator. Well, in India there was Vedic Mathematics. It originated from the Vedas of Hindu. I am going to illustrate some examples of how Vedic Mathematics works ...
Imaginary Numbers and Real Numbers
... imaginary" probably came from the fact that there is no real number that, when squared, equals one. What is i? It's the square root of -1. It seems weird to imagine any number having a negative square. Though it seems impossible, it really does exist in a number system called the Complex Number ...
Rene Descartes Bio
... Descartes Rene Descartes , the founder of modern philosophy and Father of Modern Mathematics, was born on March 31st, 1596 in La Hayne (now called Descartes), Touraine, France. He was an amazing Philosopher who completely changed the world of arithmetic ...
Essay on the life of Paul Erdos
... Poor Great Old Man-Living Dead-Archeological Discovery-Legally Dead-Counts Dead). Over 1500 papers were published by Erdos during his lifetime. Erdos himself has an Erdos number of 0. Anyone who wrote a paper with him has an Erdos number of 1. Someone who wrote a ...
Emilie du Chatelet
... work in mathematics was rarely original or as captivating as that of other female mathematicians but it was substantive. At the age of nineteen she married Marquis du Chatelet. During the first two years of their marriage, Emilie gave birth to a boy and a ...
Fibonacci Numbers
... time the Fibonacci numbers had been discussed. It was based on bits of Arithmetic and Algebra that Fibonacci had accumulated during his travels with his father. Liber abaci introduced the Hindu-Arabic place-valued decimal system and the use of ...
A brief essay about Carl Gauss written for my statistics class.
... great mathematicians of modern time. His work in the areas of statistics, probability, astronomy and geodesy, among other fields, established basic principles in the scientific world without the benefits of modern technology. Gauss was recognized as a ...
Raèun diobe
... 1.5.) do (1.7.) zadovoljavaju jednad be (1.1.) i (1.2.), buduæi da zbroj razlomaka , ( i = 1, 2, ... , n) daje jedinicu (tj. jedno cijelo S) (jednad ba (1.1.) ), a njihovi meðusobni omjeri poshtivaju jednad bu 1 ...
History of Algebra
... of triangles, parallelograms, rectangles and squares. Books 7 through 9 deal with the number theory. Book 10 deals with irrational numbers. Books 11 through 13 deal with 3 dimensional geometry. The long lasting nature of the elements must make Euclid the leading mathematics teacher of all time ...
The Mathematics of Blackjack
... a higher possibility that one will be dealt an ace and a low card than being dealt a blackjack. Here is how it works:36 cards less than ten points9/13 (probability of being dealt a low card)x 1/13 (probability of ...