Mathematician

Leonhard Euler was born on 15 April 1707. In a town call Basel located in Switzerland. His father Paul Euler was a pastor of the Reformed church. Leonhard Euler had two younger sisters called Anna Maria and Maria Magdalena. Later on the Euler’s moved from basal to the town of Riehen, where Euler spent most of his child hood. Leonhard Euler formal education started in Basel where he was sent to live with maternal grandmother. When Leonhard Euler was thirteen he enrolled at the University of Basel…

programmers and mathematicians followed Ferguson’s computer work to continually crunch out digits for pi in attempt to create software that could calculate digits of pi faster and faster. In 1976 Eugene Salamin put the final mark on his algorithm, which constantly doubles the number of accurate digits with each iteration of pi (Wilson). Today the world is blessed with the current record being 68,719,470,000 digits found by Kanada and Takahashi in 1999 (Wilson). Even to this day mathematicians…

Leonhard Euler, a Calvinist mathematician whose work in math is still praised today. One thing Euler is praised for is how he made math so simple and was able to give an extremely in-depth analysis. Euler was born April 15, 1707, in Bale, Switzerland. Europe’s best mathematician, Johann Bernoulli, tutored him. Since Leonhard Euler’s father was Calvinist pastor, he wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. The reason that he didn’t was Bernoulli saw his mathematical potential and advocated for…

Introduction I’m going to start this paper with introducing the history of Pascal’s Triangle, time ranging from 2nd century BC to 18th century AD. Among all the academic works by ancient mathematicians, I’m going to focus on Jiu Zhang Suan Shu [Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art] composed by Chinese scholars around 2nd century BC-10th century AD. I will use the binomial expansions derived from Pascal’s triangle as an example and then illustrate the coefficients expansion in general. After…

numbers have various applications, but perhaps the best reason why Mathematicians study them is that they are extremely basic and mysterious at the same time. It’s amazing how little we know about primes after reflecting on them for thousands of years. Prime numbers were first studied extensively by Greek mathematicians. Euclid, a Greek Mathematician who lived around 300 BC and was known as the…

see or think a woman can do. One of those professions is becoming a mathematician. Emmy Noether was one of the mathematicians who worked hard to get what she dreamed of doing. She wanted to be a teacher of English and French to young women but something else was waiting for her during her path. It was to fell in love with Math and to become a mathematician and her dream of teaching. Amalie Emmy Noether is a female mathematician, who was known for her abstract algebra and theoretical physics.…

Mathematics: The Greatest Legacy from Ancient Greece to the Modern World The greatest legacy of Ancient Greece to the modern world is mathematics. Ancient Greece was the source of great mathematicians like Archimedes, Pythagoras, Euclid and Eratosthenes who provided the modern world with a strong base to the knowledge we have today. They gave the modern world hydrostatics, the volume of a sphere and the calculation of pi which is used to design impressive sea vessels, industrial tanks and…

Hatch (1998) states that Isaac Newton was born in January on the 4th of the year of 1643. Nussbaum (2014) mentions that Isaac was a top student and he went to study at university of Cambridge at the age of 19.Issac needed to be a top student to being able to study what he did at Cambridge, this allowed him to receive a degree and then work hard, then be named famous. In the year of 1665, Newton started to begin to create a mathematical theory that gave him a lead to build on the development of…

favorable results. For example, during World War II a team of mathematicians led by Alan Turing secretly cracked the Enigma code. The Enigma code was a type of enciphering machine used by the German forces to send messages securely. Although the team understood the code, they had to pretend that they did not in order to prevent the Germans from reconfiguring the machine, which they were capable of doing overnight. One of the mathematicians on the team had a brother who was a crew member on a…

Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer, mathematician, translator, artist, and physicist. Nicolaus Copernicus is the first astronomer to discover that earth and the other planets within the solar system all revolve around the sun. As before the discovery, astronomers believed that earth was the center of the solar system and everyone revolved around it. Therefore, based on Nicolaus Copernicus discovery, it has contributed to astronomical history Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer,…