Egyptian mathematics

Emily Shrem PHIL 2101 Professor Slack November 1st, 2017 Assignment Two: Descartes Rene Descartes was a mathematician, a physicist and most importantly, a philosopher. He was one of the first to spread modern philosophy and did so by using accepted scientific knowledge. He is famous for his proposition, “cogito ergo sum”, which in English translates to “I think therefore I am.” In Descartes’ Meditation on First Philosophy, he takes on a few tasks to come to his ultimate conclusion. He uses the…

described as a great failure, the books were Sylvie and Bruno, and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded. He also wrote a few funny poems and things and those were published even before the Alice books. He wrote Euclid and his Modern Rivals, which is a book on mathematics. There’s also Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, which was a collection of multiple poems and pieces. This was later separated into 2 more…

permanently fill the position – I knew my medical obligations would conflict with the position for several months. Later, knowing I was distraught by giving up the job, one of my professors helped me find work as a private tutor for programming and mathematics. I spent most of my spring semester and summer tutoring kids in Scratch and JavaScript until I needed to move for grad…

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For my client’s confidentiality, throughout the rest of this paper I will be using the false name of Carol to protect her identity. Carol is currently a full-time female student at York University. As I am also a full-time student at York university, when it came time to ask if she would volunteer as my client for this project, Carol’s academic appreciation and understanding personality made the interview very comfortable. Carol’s problem was between her and her best friend whom she feels are…

though he mostly devoted his time to Indian astronomy, Brahmagupta when writing his books implemented a great amount of mathematics. This was seen especially in his most famous work Brahmasphutasiddhanta where he talked about mathematics in chapters twelve through eighteen. The interest in math sparked a discovery that is arguably the most important in the evolution of all mathematics that is even used in today’s twenty-first century. It is fascinating to think it was thought of back in the…

Reflection prompt #3 Tareque Mehdi EDUC 800 Ways of Knowing Imagine a conversation between Kuhn and Descartes: what would Kuhn say to Descartes about his Discourse? Many have argued that Descartes created a scientific revolution. Does it meet Kuhn’s attributes? Why or why not? Additionally, note what specifically about Kuhn’s perspective helps you understand how we come to know? If I imagine a conversation between Kuhn and Descartes, upon closely looking at their publications, I believe…

I never thought that I would be sitting on top of a washing machine waiting for my clothes to dry while at the same time, writing a shitty first draft essay. It’s amazing where education can take you. In my first semester of composition, I read “Brainology” by Carol S. Dweck and “The Student Fear Factor” by Rebecca Cox. In Brainology, Dweck explains that there are two different mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. A growth mindset is when a person has a mindset that intelligence can…

The Mandelbrot and Filled Julia Sets The Mandelbrot and Filled Julia Sets are sets of numbers that are composed of complex numbers that do not diverge for varying conditions of the function fc(z)=z²+c. For the Mandelbrot set, the function is iterated from z=0. The filled Julia set holds c constant for any complex number to look at the behavior of the iterated functions for each value of z in the complex plane. Both sets are derived from the iterations of simple functions in the complex plane,…

Have you ever wondered how many children have a technological device? Over 42% of adolescents, age 2-18, have a tablet or a phone. Children learn a great amount of information from playing educational games that teach them how to read and write. The devices that they use help them learn things related to the real world. They learn how to recognize objects such as; animals, sidewalks, and bikes. Having a tablet keeps the attention span of a child occupied for many hours. Children can learn many…