Katherine Okikiolu comes from a mathematical family‚ her father is a mathematician and inventor and her mother is a high school mathematics teacher. Her parents met when her father left Nigeria to study mathematics at the same college in England where her mother was studying physics. Her father‚ the Nigerian George Okikiolu‚ has written more mathematics papers than any other Black mathematician. She is married to mathematician Hans Lindblad. Okikiolu earned her B.A. in Mathematics from Cambridge
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Several centuries later‚ the Muslim mathematician Abu Rayhan Biruni described the Aryabhatiya as a "mix of common pebbles and costly crystals".[95] In the 7th century‚ Brahmagupta identified the Brahmagupta theorem‚ Brahmagupta’s identity and Brahmagupta’s formula‚ and for tboth a placeholder and decimal digit‚ and explained the Hindu-Arabic numeral system.[96] It was from a translation of this Indian text on mathematics (c. 770) that Islamic mathematicians were introduced to this numeral system
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The discipline I have chosen to study is Business Administration with a concentration in Healthcare Management. Health and Social Care systems are undergoing major changes worldwide. The health-care industry dominates in terms of creation of new jobs. The reasons for this are not hard to decipher. One need only examine demographic trends to notice the continued aging of the general American population as well as the bumper crop of baby boomers now moving into their golden years. Healthcare managers
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medical field and references. Their advancements impacted the ancient world and todays world. Their other contribution is mathematics. Math came with the help of Al-Kwarizmi’s textbook on algebra. as in the text‚ “Al-Kwarizmi‚ a Muslim mathematician‚ studied Indian sources and wrote a textbook in the 800’s about al-jabr (the Arabic word for algebra)‚ which was later translated into latin and used throughout Europe.” (Document 4). The Arabic numerals were adopted from the Indians used in the
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They had so many different ideas and all that knowledge led to them making great achievements that lasted and made an impact on the world. Islamics had quite a few achievements in math. One being‚ as stated in Document 1‚ that they relied on mathematicians to calculate prayer times and also the direction of the Mecca. Both of these were very important to them because their culture was
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biography of the English mathematician Arthur Cayley and popular maths book How Big is Infinity? Reflection 50 Ideas You Really Need To Know Maths‚ written by Tony Crilly‚ is one of the other books from the “50 Ideas You Really Need To Know” series‚ about Mathematics. It takes us on a journey from the Introduction of Zero to the Riemann’s Hypothesis via the wicked roads some leading to
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well-known mathematician of ancient India. He was born in 1114 AD in Vijayapura‚ India. Bhaskara II is also known as Bhaskaracharya‚ which means "Bhaskara the Teacher". His father Mahesvara was as an astrologer‚ who taught him mathematics‚ which he later passed on to his son Loksamudra. Bhaskara II was the head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain‚ the chief mathematical center of ancient India. It goes to the credit of Varahamihira and Brahmagupta‚ the leading mathematicians who worked
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Euclid also known as Euclid of Alexandria‚ was a Greek mathematician‚ often referred to as the "Father of Geometry". He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I (323–283 BC). His Elements is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics‚ serving as the main textbook for teaching mathematics (especially geometry) from the time of its publication until the late 19th or early 20th century.[1][2][3] In the Elements‚ Euclid deduced the principles of what is now called Euclidean
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enduring challenges has been the calculation of the ratio between a circle’s circumference and diameter‚ which has come to be known by the Greek letter pi. From ancient Babylonia to the Middle Ages in Europe to the present day of supercomputers‚ mathematicians have been striving to calculate the mysterious number. They have searched for exact fractions‚ formulas‚ and‚ more recently‚ patterns in the long string of numbers starting with 3.14159 2653...‚ which is generally shortened to 3.14. William L
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Algebrae (1560) he says: "The name Algebra is Syriac‚ signifying the art or doctrine of an excellent man. For Geber‚ in Syriac‚ is a name applied to men‚ and is sometimes a term of honour‚ as master or doctor among us. There was a certain learned mathematician who sent his algebra‚ written in the Syriac language‚ to Alexander the Great‚ and he named it almucabala‚ that is‚ the book of dark or mysterious things‚ which others would rather call the doctrine of algebra. To this day the same book is in great
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