Mathematician

Did you know that the first computer was invented by a group of six female mathematicians? Unfortunately, this unfamiliar fact demonstrates that women’s success stories often aren’t told. However, this is only one of the many issues that are addressed in the sarcastic and hilarious essay, Stephen Colbert Shares Why He Thinks Women Should Be in Charge of Everything, in which Stephen Colbert reveals his dislike for the sexist society of today’s world. Colbert, a male comedian who uses humor to…

Before the Enlightenment came the Renaissance, along with the people who contributed to it. The Renaissance was a time of learning and creativity throughout Europe, from this the philosophy of humanism erupted. Humanism is the outlook on the idea that the individual was more important rather than a spiritual force or society. This helped people realize that they themselves were important in other ways than producing heirs and crops yearly. And from this realization came the Scientific Revolution…

Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Learning never exhausts the mind.” Leonardo da Vinci was an applied scientist. He was and inventor and a mathematician. He invented teleportation, such as flying machines, bikes, and more. He was born in Vinci, Italy on April 15, 1452. Leonardo had learned many different skills. The skills were metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, sculpting, painting, and drawing. In 1472, Leonardo became member of the Florence Painters Guild. In 1476, on April 9, da Vinci…

6. He helped popularize the famous tale about Sir Isaac Newton and the apple. Though the two never met in person, Voltaire was an enthusiastic acolyte of the English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton. Upon receiving a copy of Newton’s “Principia Mathematica,” he claimed he knelt down before it in reverence, “as was only right.” Voltaire played a key role in popularizing Newton’s ideas, and he offered one of the first accounts of how the famed scientist developed his theories on…

smart, especially in science. He invented many machines that have helped us get to our point in technology. He saved millions of lives, changing the future forever. Alan Turing has done some major accomplishments in his life. He was not only a mathematician but also a cryptographer and developed computer science. He was mostly famous for breaking the German Enigma code during World War II. The Enigma was a device that allowed the Germans to send messages without being exposed. During World War…

A French mathematician name Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) was able to identify an energy principle to determine how internal pressure and liquid or gas content react. Bernoulli’s principle educates us about how the vocal folds are used for phonation. With the myoelasticity…

Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was born on January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, England. His father was a farmer. Newton spent his early years waiting tables, and cleaning up the bedrooms of wealthier kids. After his father died, his mom married a minister and left Isaac to live with his grandmother. When her second husband died she went back to live with Isaac along with her other children. Isaac went to King’s School in Grantham, England. Here he met an…

Maurits Cornelis Escher is one of the world's most famous artist. Escher created unique and enchanting works of art that "explore and exhibit a wide range of mathematical ideas" (Smith). Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Escher was born as the youngest and fourth son of a civil engineer. According to Smith, Escher's family planned for him to "follow his father's career of architecture". After failing his high school exams, Escher eventually was enrolled in the School of…

St. Albert the Great, who was also known as Albert of Cologne,was a great thinker of his time. He was a great natural scientists, physicist, theologian, mathematician, chemist, geographer, and astronomer. St. Albert also was a teacher of St.Thomas Aquinas. St. Albert was born around 1200 AD. There is not much known about his childhood and birth, and many sources disagree on his early life. Research suggests he was sent to Padua University, while he was there he was taught in the writing of…

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