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Mathematicians
Often, to completely understand the importance of a mathematical theory, it's essential to know about the person who developed it. This category is where all questions about historically significant mathematicians should be asked.
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He created the FIRST scientific method. He was Plato's MOST talented discuple.
Did Leonardo Fibonacci have a mom?
It would have been a miracle indeed if he could have been born without a mother.
His death certificate on file at Mercer County Courthouse lists cause of death as malnutrition and inanition caused by insanity and personality disturbance. He died assuming the fetal position on January 14, 1978 at 1 p.m.(I believe while sitting on a chair).
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How many siblings did Niels Abel have?
Statistics say that Niels Henrik Abel had four younger siblings. He only had one older brother who developed mental illness after their dad had died in 1820.
9 Has any Mathematician ever won a Nobel Prize If so Who When?
The most prominent such mathematicians are Bertrand Russell, a prominent philosopher as well as a logician, who was awarded the 1950 Nobel in Literature and John Nash who was awarded the 1994 Nobel in Economics for his study of equilibria in non-zero sum games.
A was a famous Greek mathematician?
Some famous Greek mathematicians were Pythagoras, Aristotle, Anaxagoras, Euclid, Archimedes and Thales, among others.
He discovered it in Greece.
What was happening in history when Aristotle was famous?
The war was going on when aristotle was famous
What is a Euler path or circuit?
An euler path is when you start and one point and end at another in one sweep wirthout lifting you pen or pencil from the paper.
An euler circuit is simiar to an euler path exept you must start and end in the same place you started.
Who was killed when he was busy solving a mathematical problem?
I'm a little unsure on this one, but I know that the famous mathematician Niels Abel died (by tuberculosis, not by murder) very shortly after he published a paper on elliptic functions that made numerous contributions to mathematics today.
Another viewpoint: I'm pretty sure that must be "Archimedes".
Basically relies on the fact that a blob (or any shape) of water near the surface of the water, sea, lake, cup of water etc, does not sink. The reason is that the pressure increases as you go deeper, and this exactly balances the weight (that's where the pressure comes from in the first place). When you put a ship in water, it goes lower and lower until the weight of the ship exactly equals the weight of the water it has shoved out of the way. Hence the phrase "upthrust equals the weight of water displaced".
How did the accomplishments of Queen Mary of Scot helped change European society?
Almost all the royal families of Europe have a genetic connection to her family.
Who is the person of the Godhead is your teacher?
Though the teachings of Jesus Christ are for the benefit of all mankind, the Holy Spirit is even a greater teacher. It is he who confirms to you that what Christ has taught is true. As in all teachings in the scriptures or from any other source, it is by the Holy Spirit that all things will be made known unto you.
Von Neumann was the first person to suggest to concept of the stored program. This concept states that there is no difference between computer instructions and data. More importantly, he suggested that it was not necessary to have separate storage location for a computer program and data -- hence today, computer instructions are stored in primary memory for execution, along with other data.
How did Henri Poincare become famous?
Not only did he lay the foundations of chaos theory and topology, he figured out every remaining relativistic invariant of Maxwell's equations, setting the stage for Einstein's theory of special relativity. Read more about him below.
No one did. Aristotle was born and died over 200 years before the birth of the Christ.
