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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.
6,570 Questions
What three pursuits did Pythagoras dedicate his life to?
Pythagoras dedicated his life to philosophy, mathematics and religion. He was well known for his philosophic writings and his advances in mathematics. He also founded the Pythagorean brotherhood which was religious in nature. The brotherhood developed principles that influenced Plato and Aristotle.
Mathematical symbol that was introduced in 1525?
The radical symbol for square root, without the vinculum above the radicand, was introduced in 1525. The first author to use it was Christoff Rudolff.
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Archimedes discovered and invented several things throughout his life:
- Archimedes' principle (one of several apsects involving buoyancy).
- The Archimedean screw (a fluid-moving device).
- The block-and-pulley (using mechanical advantage to move loads with less effort).
- Inventing the odometer (a device that measures distance travelled by a vehicle).
- The relation of a circle's area to its radius (given by a mathematical relationship and a basic tool of modern mathematics).
There is little known about Euclid's past life and family. His mother and father are not known.
Euler's line is the line that, inside of a triangle that isn't equilateral, contains the orthocenter, the circumcenter, the centroid, and the center of the nine-point circle
How is Pythagoras and what did he do?
Pythagoras, a greek mathematician living about 2600 years ago, became immortalised simply by finding a method for calculating the length of the hypotenuse without having to draw it out
What was Fibonacci's occupation?
Fibonacci was a mathematician who travelled and studied under other mathematicians. He received a salary from the Republic of Pisa for his work in math and science.
He created what was known as "Archimedes Principle" which defines how an object either floats or sinks. If the displaced water of an object is heavier then the object, it floats, and vice versa. He also invented many of the six simple machines which are a great use today in our lives.
Where did Leonardo Fibonacci go to college?
he did not have college back in the middle ages so when he was travling with his fatherr is when was learning about math
What is the difference between Chebyshevs inequality and empirical rule in terms of skewness?
Chebyshev's inequality: The fraction of any data set lying within K standard deviations is always at least 1-1/K^2 where K is any positive number greater than 1. It does not assume that any distribution. Now, there is the empirical rule of bell shaped curves or the 68-95-99.7 rule, which states that for a bell shaped curve: 68% of all values should fall within 1 standard deviation, 95% of all values should fall within 2 standard deviations and 99.7% of all values should fall within 3 standard deviation. If we suspect that our data is not bell shaped, but right or left skewed, the above rule can not be applied. I note that one test of skewness is Pearson's index of skewness, I= 3(mean of data - median of data)/(std deviation) If I is greater or equal to 1000 or I is less than 1, the data can be considered significantly skewed. I hope this answers your question. I used the textbook Elementary Statistics by Triola for the information on Pearson's index. If this answer is insufficient, please resubmit and be a bit more definitive on what you mean by empirical rule.
Did Nicolaus Copernicus have any grandchildren?
No, Nicolaus Copernicus did not have any grandchildren. He was never married and had no children, and would not have had any grandchildren.
How old was Pythagoras when he discovered the Pythagorean Theorem?
he was about 48-49 years of age
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St. John Neumann was a Catholic Priest. St. John Neumann is most known for being the first American priest to be canonized.
What was Copernicus book about?
I am not sure which of his books you are asking us about, since he wrote at least three of them. But his best known was On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (in Latin,
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium). Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer, and this book taught something entirely new for the 1500s-- that the planets revolved around the sun.
What are the top ten famous mathematicians?
I don't know all of them, but i know that you have to include euclid, Einstein, Aristotle, and Plato
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The ten most important mathematicians of the ancient Greece were:
Thales of Miletus, Pythagoras of Samos, Eratosthenes, Zeno of Elea, Archimedes of Syracuse, Apollonius of Perga, Euclid, Hero of Alexandria, Hypatia of Alexandria [the first female mathematician], Pappus of Alexandria
Who is the worst mathematician?
Matthew Rupen. He spent three years of research to conclude that circles have the least sides of any visible shape.
