Essays Tagged: "french mathematician"
A short essay about Rene Descartes written for my College Algebra class
Rene DescartesThe French mathematician Rene Descartes was born on 31 March 1596 in LaHaye (now Descartes), Touraine, F ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
The History of Computers
that means the preceding of the computer is the mechanical device.Blaise Pascal (1623-62) who was a French mathematician invented a "Pascaline" which was a first digital computer in 1642. It used gear ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics
GAME THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION
of amusements, but it also applies to sociology, economics, and political and military science. The French mathematician Émile Borel, who wrote several papers on games of chance and theories of ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
Philosophy Argument - Blaise Pascal's Gamble
uestion, and out of these minds came various theories. Among these great minds was Blaise Pascal, a French Mathematician, scientist and religious philosopher. As a mathematician, Blaise Pascal has bee ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Central Tendency and Dispersion Statistical Measurements
stribution function, especially in error theory. It can be traced back to 1733 in which the English-French mathematician de Moivre worked on the curve. The Gaussian distribution can be proved that eac ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics
The fun filled fractal phenome
flake and the length of a coastline. Fractals were brought to the public's attention by the work of French mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot in the 1970's. Mandelbrot discovered how to calculate frac ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes lived from 1596 to 1650. He was a French mathematician, philosopher, and anatomist. He contributed to modern ideas, mainly those assoc ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Isaac Newton
determined to have had a greater effect on the history of science than Albert Einstein. Legrange, a French mathematician, said “Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed.” Most people ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Pascal's Wager: An argument for belief in God using logic, reasoning, and decision theory
E �1� - Phil Conte #1Stats - 3Historical Paper4/1/09Pascal's WagerBlaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was taught by ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity