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Abstract: This paper is a report on the development of algebra throughout time. It’s slow, but nevertheless, unyielding progression brings us to the algebra we know today. However, it was not always based on the abstract, rather, it was born out of necessity. The need to calculate unknown quantities gave rise to algebraic methods and techniques practiced and taught even today. And, even though nowadays, algebra is a rather abstract mathematics, this was not always the case. It was through…

Abstract: Mathematics is a subject that has developed differently throughout various societies through time. Papyri left behind by the Egyptians and clay tablets from the Babylonians allow us to understand how these civilizations developed their ideas of mathematics and how they used mathematical concepts in their culture. Studying the evidence left behind by these people allow us to understand their number systems and their understanding and use of simple arithmetic concepts. Introduction…

At trinity he was first introduced to (and took an interest in) math and natural philosophy (physics). Though the schools curriculum was primarily based on the writings of Greek philosophers like Plato,Euclid, and Aristotle; newton was interested in the more recent works of Galileo, Boyle, and Kepler (and consequently largely disregarded the work of the Greek philosophers). Reading works of these men awakened in him the desire to discover things not yet…

There is one major hospital located within a 5-mile radius of The Children’s Clinic, which is St. Mary’s hospital. There is also a small neighborhood hospital called Centinela Medical Center located on Cherry Avenue. St Mary’s Medical Center Pediatric Clinic is found on Tenth Street and Atlantic Avenue. There are small clinics and dental offices that are available and scattered throughout the area, mostly on Private Practices such as doctor’s offices and dental offices are present and dispersed…

The simplicity of early childhood can be rather appealing to adults who can remember their joys of running and playing. There can be great pleasure in watching young children run around and explore carefree, where the burdens of the world are not weighing on their shoulders. Lewis Carroll often enjoyed spending time with the Liddell children whom he lived next to at Christ Church University. Alice Liddell’s actions and outlook inspired Carroll to write his series of Alice and her adventures.…

At the time most mathematicians were trying desperately to prove Euclid 's fifth postulate as derived from other axioms. We now know that in fact this can not be done as it must be taken as an axiom to define a Euclidean space. This postulate, reformulated in modern terms, reads as “given a line and a point not on it…

Many of my fellow college bound high-schoolers seem lost in this day and age. They pursue a field, usually with the best of intentions. They pick a college with their intended major. Nonetheless, they usually end up switching majors, or even colleges. Why is this? In many ways, it is due to a lack of commitment – not necessarily on the part of the student, but on the part of the education industrry. A lack of commitment to truth, to the great facts about life and the great questions of life. The…

The Scientific Revolution Some people consider the development of science the most important event in all history. This all started in 1543 when the Scientific Revolution began after the Reformation. The Scientific Revolution led to the birth of modern day science. Scientists started by observing the world around them. By observing the world, scientists began to identify facts about it. Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, studied many things but his greatest contribution to science was the idea…

of the Greek was called the rise of Athens. During this rise of Athens much of what was already seen as advanced had happened in Mathematics per say the with the Grecian advancements to the basics in Geometry where visionaries such as Archimedes, Euclid, and Pythagoras. The advancements in the field of Medicine which in fact were the sparks that set the earliest practices of “healing”. The pioneer in the field of medicine during the time of the Classical Grecian age was Hippocrates of Cos whom…

As Albus Dumbledore once said, “Happiness can be found, in even the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” This is true for many characters throughout Walk Two Moons. Most, if not all of the characters have had to face dark times, and many of them have needed to find happiness with what they have. Sal got through her sadness by thinking of things that reminded her of her mother, and her father got by by spending time with Margaret Cadaver. They discover that they are in…