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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
Who wrote the elements and what did he discuss in it?
Euclid. The thirteen books cover Euclidean geometry and the ancient Greek version of elementary number theory. The work also includes an algebraic system that has become known as geometric algebra, which is powerful enough to solve many algebraic problems, including the problem of finding the square root of a number.
Of course it is. Universal public education, competition to publish, widespread
publication of work in the field, photocopy machines, and the internet, have
combined to render any hint of secrecy impossible. Unfortunately, they haven't
been able to eliminate the conspiracy theorists yet.
What is the work of Charles Babbage?
Charles Babbage is acclaimed as the inventor of the computer.
He actually designed mechanical calculating machines, based on the idea of a series of cogs to compute the answer to mathematical problems. He developed this idea by adding the concept of punched cards for data input, something similar to the weaving industry's system for controlling looms so that intricate patterns could be reproduced mechanically and rapidly.
Babbage had the idea of different machines for different types and stages of mathematical computation. He called these machines 'Calculating Engines.'
Babbage's ideas and technical drawings were instrumental in the development of modern-day computers, which still use his concepts of using different 'machines' (different parts of the computer) to perform the various functions necessary to transform input into output.
Babbage was a mathematician, engineer, philosopher and politician. He works also include automating the calculation of logarithm tables and astronomical tables; and how a machine could be made which could break secret codes.
How has Nicholas Copernicus discovery been used?
He was the first astromoner to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the earth from the center of the universe.
Where is Benoit Mandelbrot currently teaching?
He is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences Mathematics Department - Yale University.
What were some of nicolaus Copernicus' discoveries about the moon?
he jumped off it and broke it.it healed 3yrs later.he finally came out of it in 1956.he finally built a bunga flyer.a bunga flyer is a rocket that you steer.he drove it to the moon and crashed in 1473 that's when he died.
Why does a calculator give misleading results for numeric derivatives?
You don't normally calculate derivatives with a calculator. Please clarify what calculation you were trying to do.
There is little known about them but his father's name is Phidias
It is an odd number,
If you are going to answer these type of questions in the future, you just find the ones place, if the ones have the number 1,3,5,7 or 9 in them it is odd, and if the ones have the numbers 2,4,6 or 8 in them it is even.
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Where did the Pascal Triangle first appear?
Hindu studies of combinatorics but Pascal discoevered more uses for it. If you add up the diagonals of Pascal's triangle, the sums are the entries of the Fibonacci Sequence.
What did Pythagoras do in the field of Mathematics?
he came up with Pythagoras theorem. the formulae (works on finding the longer, missing a measurement side of triangles) is (2 stand for squared) A2+B2=C2 square-root C2 and you have the missing side of a triangle.
What was euler most famous for?
The formula eix = Cos(x) + i*sin(x) where x is measured in radians.
When x = pi, this gives eiπ + 1 = 0
That equation contains, in such a few symbols, the two most basic numbers: the identity elements of addition (0) and multiplication (1), and the two most important constants in higher mathematics: pi and e.
The Nobel laureate physicist, Richard Feynman called Euler's formula "our jewel" and "one of the most remarkable, almost astounding, formulas in all of mathematics."
It is certainly my all time favourite!
Feynman, Richard P. (1977). The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. I. Addison-Wesley. pp. 22-1, 22-10. ISBN 0-201-02010-6.
What comes after kilometers in the metric system?
There is no name until you get to 1000 kilometres which is 1 megametre.
That would look like 289+10. So therefore the answer would be 299.
