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25 Cards in this Set
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harmony, numbers, geometry
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Pythagoras
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fig market, Egyptian math, triangular geometry, solar eclipse, teacher of Pythagoras
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Thales
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military tech., density and displacement, planetarium
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Archimedes
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his Sequence from "rabbit story", math biology, Rhind papyrus (first math by Egyptians) story relation,
math notation (Liber abaci), Practica geometriae (geometry and trig), Liber quadratorum (indeterminate analysis) |
Fibonacci
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logarithms
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Napier
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atoms, volumes of cones/pyramids, foundation of calculus w/ infinitismals
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Democritis
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idea of infinity
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Zeno
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university at Alexandria, Egypt
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Ptolemy
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theory of conic sections
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Apollonius
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Elements, geometry, Egyptian king servant, no royal road to understand!
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Euclid
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heliocentric theory
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Aristarchus
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cosmos harmony/planetary motion laws, a Pythagorean
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Kepler
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physical New Sciences
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Galileo
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physiol, psycho, philos contribtuons; La Geometrie' (analytic) of Discours de la methode
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Descarte's
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contrib to probab, analytic geometry, his Last Theorem (n>2, no + integers xyz, x^n+y^n=z^n)
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Fe'rmat
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his Triangle, theorems of Euclidean geometry, hydrodynamics contrib, calc machine
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Pascal
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father of probab
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Jerome Cardan
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dispute w/ Leibnez on diff calc he introduced, optics, Universal Law of Gravitation
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Newton
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first to prove x^3 + y^3 = z^3 part of Fe'rmat's Last Theorem, first to solve Bridges of Ko:nigsburg problem, calc orbit of Uranus,
modern trig, has high memoriz. |
Euler
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Fundam. Theorem of Aleg.
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Gauss
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modern algebra
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Gal:ois
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infinity sets
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Cantor
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23 unsolved problems for 20th century, Foundations of Geometry (revised Euclid's Elements), any math problem in world is solvable
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Hilbert
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axioms, 2nd Hilbert problem cannot be solved
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Go:del
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Computer + Brain, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior,
Atomic Energy Commission, aid on atomic bomb, army computers |
vonNeumann
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