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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
How do you number the quadrants on a grid?
There are 4 quadrants on a coordinate plain (grid). The top right is quadrant 1, top left is quadrant 2, bottom left is quadrant 3, and bottom right is quadrant 4.
Is 525 feet more or less than 6300 inches?
There are 12 inches in one foot. Therefore, 525 feet is equal to 525 x 12 = 6300 inches. The two units are therefore the same.
What are 5 famous mathematicians?
Five famous mathematicians are: Ada Lovelace, Augustus De Morgan, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Adam Smith.
How did Frances bacon and Rene Descartes contribute to science?
Both Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes created scientific methods. Francis Bacon was a philosopher and Rene Descartes was a philosopher and mathematician.
He had an enlarged heart that caused a irregular heartbeat
Who was Renee Descartes and what did he do?
Renee Descartes was an important French mathematician, perhaps best known as the inventor of the Cartesian coordinate system, and for his famous statement "Je pense donc je suis" which in translation means, I think therefore I am.
What plus 12 squared equals what according to pythagoras' theorum?
If 12 is a hypoteneuse then a^2+b^2=12^2.
If 12 is a leg then 12^2+b^2=c^2.
You cannot find any of the variables without more information.
Is Pythagoras's theorem still used today?
Definately. there are heaps of uses for it like building fences and so on.
What was Adrien-Marie Legendre's contribution to geometry?
Adrien-Marie Legendre was born in Paris (or possibly, in Toulouse, depending on sources) on 18 September 1752 to a wealthy family. He was given an excellent education at the Collège Mazarin in Paris, defending his thesis in physics and mathematics in 1770. From 1775 to 1780 he taught at the École Militaire in Paris, and from 1795 at the École Normale, and was associated with the Bureau des longitudes. In 1782, he won the prize offered by the Berlin Academy for his treatise on projectiles in resistant media, which brought him to the attention of Lagrange.
In 1783 he became an adjoint of the Académie des Sciences, and an associé in 1785. In 1789 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]During the French Revolution, in 1793, he lost his private fortune, but was able to put his affairs in order with the help of his wife, Marguerite-Claudine Couhin, whom he married in the same year. In 1795 he became one of the six members of the mathematics section of the reconstituted Académie des Sciences, named the Institut National des Sciences et des Arts, and later, in 1803, of the Geometry section as reorganized under Napoleon. In 1824, as a result of refusing to vote for the government candidate at the Institut National, Legendre was deprived by the Ministre de L'Intérieur of the ultraroyalist government, the comte de Corbière, of his pension from the École Militaire, where he had served from 1799 to 1815 as mathematics examiner for graduating artillery students. This was partially reinstated with the change in government in 1828 and in 1831 he was made an officer of the Légion d'Honneur.
He died in Paris on 9 January 1833, after a long and painful illness. Legendre's widow made a cult of his memory, carefully preserving his belongings. Upon her death in 1856, she left their last country house to the village of Auteuil where the couple had lived and are buried.
His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
Why does the golden ratio appear in so many places?
it is just naturally pleasing to human eye it is just that number makes things seem important
What was Hippocrates's impact on ancient times?
Hippocrates drove out a plague in Athens.
He created a new field of medicine for people to study in.
He did other stuff that will remain a mystery until someone builds a time machine.
What was Isaac Newton's eureka moment?
When an apple hit his head and he discovered gravity!
It certainly knocked some sense into him.
Where was the calculating device Napier's Bones invented?
Napier published his version of rods in a work printed in Edinburgh,Scotland, at the end of 1617 entitled Rabdologiæ.
