LAM HO VINH NGO PHYSICS 100 HONOR PROJECT RAY E. ETHERIDGE Archimedes and his contributions to science Archimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician‚ physicist‚ engineer‚ inventor and astronomer. Little was known of his personal life‚ even though people regard him as one of the leading contributors to classical antiquity. One of his most outstanding contributions was the foundation of hydrostatics‚ statics and principles of lever. He also invented many mechanisms such as siege machines
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HIPPARCHUS (c 190 – c120 BC) Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer‚ mathematician and geographer. Surprisingly little is known about his early life. He was most certainly born in Nicaea‚ Bithynia‚ (which is now known as Iznik in Turkey)‚ around 190 BC. Most of what we do about him comes from the books of other scholars who came after him‚ such as Ptolemy and Strabo. It seems likely that Hipparchus studied in Alexandria but spent his later life in Rhodes. Strabo‚ another Greek geographer writing about
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Greek mathematician of the ancient world. He lived from 287BC to 212BC. His life story is very interesting. Mohamed : Can you please tell us one story? Father : King Heron was ruling the country at that time………………………… (The curtain closes and the Narrator speak in front of the closed curtain) Narrator : During the ruling time of King Heron‚ lived a famous mathematician whose theorems and philosophies became worldwide. He was no other but Archimedes the Greek mathematician. On one
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therefore making it another golden rectangle. What happens is that if you keep cutting squares off‚ each time you get a smaller and smaller golden rectangle. Leonardo Da Vinci‚ the famous mathematician and artist from the Renaissance‚ featured the golden ratio in many of his paintings. For example‚ lets take a look at the world famous "Mona Lisa". If a rectangle were drawn around her face‚ the measurements would be that of a Golden Rectangle. http://mathworld
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Brahmagupta (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मगुप्त; listen (help·info)) (597–668 AD) was a Indian mathematician and astronomer who wrote many important works on mathematics and astronomy. His best known work is the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta (Correctly Established Doctrine of Brahma)‚ written in 628 in Bhinmal. Its 25 chapters contain several unprecedented mathematical results. Brahmagupta was the first to use zero as a number. He gave rules to compute with zero. Brahmagupta used negative numbers and zero for computing
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Niels Henrik Abel On August 5th‚ 1802‚ Soren George Abel and Marie Simonsen gave birth to their son Niels Henrik Abel. Niels Able was born in Nedstrand‚ Norway (Encyclopedia Britannica). Niels grew up in a very religious family. His father‚ Soren had a degree in theology and philosophy. Soren was a pastor at Finnoy. As well as his father being a pastor‚ Niels’ grandfather‚ Hans Mathias Abel was a pastor at Gjerstad; where Niels’ father Soren was a chaplain during his childhood (WOLFRAM RESEARCH)
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think that being famous is heaven‚ but it’s more like hell. What do you think? Phenomenom of fame is widespread around the world. Being famous today is not the same as it was 50-100 years ago. Andy Warhol once said : In the future everyone will have their 15 minutes of fame. Well‚ in my opinion‚ that time has come. People from all around the world are trying to get their way out there on the stage. It has become easy to acquire fame‚ but difficult to keep it. People get famous for doing nothing
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irregular shapes that are a far cry from the normal circle or square. It is an object of symmetry that uses components to create the picture of a self-similar entity. Fractals first appeared on the scene in 1918 due to the mathematician‚ Felix Hausdroff. A Poland mathematician by the name of Beniot B. Mandelbrot began the term fractals. Fractals originated from the Latin term fractus meaning broken or fractured. It is a series of self-similar images repeated; The Koch snowflake‚ the Mandelbrot set
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ascribe to him‚ without serious justification‚ a work with the name Nautical Star-guide while according to some others he wrote only two works: On the Solsticeand On the Equinox. Astronomy and Mathematics Thales was also a great astronomer and mathematician. It is significant that he foretold the
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algebra in the study of a structure that does not belong to algebra. For example algebra of infinite series may denote the methods for computing with series without using the notions of infinite summation‚ limits andconvergence. The Hellenistic mathematician Diophantus has traditionally been known as "the father of algebra"[77][78] but debate now exists as to whether or not Al-Khwarizmi deserves this title instead.[77]Those who support Diophantus point to the fact that the algebra found in Al-Jabr
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