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    Keeyan Khaleghi 6 3.22.18 Science p3 Sir Issac Newtown was born on January 4, 1643 and died on March 31, 1727. He was a man of science developed the principles of contemporary physics. He devoted his life to science. He also devoted his life to his belief in God and joined the smartest minds of the 17th century. Issac Newton’s mother, Hannah Ayscough, and his father Issac Newton Sr. were farmers. Newton’s dad died before he was born, his mother remarried, and Newton was sent to live with…

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    Katherine Johnson Essay

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    Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia to Joylette and Joshua Coleman. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a farmer and janitor. Katherine enjoyed mathematics and could easily solve mathematical equations. Her family moved to Institute, West Virginia so that Katherine and her siblings could attend school. Education Johnson attended West Virginia State High School and graduated at just 14 years old. At age 15 Katherine started attending…

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    famous contributors to space travel such as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. However, the woman who made space travel possible, Katherine Johnson, has not been properly recognized for her contribution to the exploration of space. Johnson was a NASA mathematician who who calculated the trajectories of objects in space. Despite the oppression she underwent because of her race and gender, she was still able to accomplish many feats and refused to be ignored. She was a math genius and had a deep…

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    travel to a deep sea habitat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where an unknown spacecraft has lain untouched and unharmed for possibly over three hundred years. Furthermore, this group of scientists consists of psychologist Norman Johnson, mathematician Harry Adams, zoologist Beth Halpern, astrophysicist Ted Fielding, and marine…

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    as the Mona Lisa or The Last Supper. Although his paintings are stunning, his inventions and experiments are what I would like to learn more about. Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance Man, having many talents and jobs such as painter, engineer, mathematician, scientist, and inventor. He helped design cathedrals and statues for the government. Leonardo wanted to learn more about human anatomy by doing studies of people and sketching them in his notebook. He also invented…

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    "Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of that do the things no one can imagine." The successful mathematician Alan Turing once said this. Faced with many obstacles and critics in his life, he proved this to be true. Many people never thought he would accomplish his ideas, and even as a child he was discouraged from practicing and learning science. Later in life, he made machines and proved theories no one believed were possible. Alan Turing was born on June 23, 1912 in London…

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    service center and repair cars for others and make money instead of spending hours and hours for solving math problems. Mathematician does not know how to fix his or her car, but they may know some equations involving the system of cars. Knowledge that cannot be applicable is a pearl that is not used as accessories. In macroscopic view of society, we don’t need many mathematicians, but we do need many auto mechanics. Newman’s system of higher education suppresses young people to become auto…

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    Justification Of Knowledge

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    concept of Calculus, inscribed within the tablet. There exists a plethora more of other early traces of Calculus, such as Exodus’ concepts of limits (408 B.C.) and Archimedes 's integral calculus (287 B.C.). The reasoning behind the math of these mathematicians is something could not be argued upon at the time, thus their concepts of math came to be known as justifiable truths. It has been centuries since the idea of limits was discovered but it is something that, to this day, is still taught…

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    Bernoulli Principle Essay

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    Daniel Bernoulli, born February 8th, 1700, is the most acclaimed member of the Swiss family of mathematicians known as the Bernoulli family. Not only was he a mathematician (among many other things), but also a physicist who made monumental discoveries in hydrodynamics. Bernoulli is best known for his published book, the “Hydrodynamica”, in which he discussed the relationship and properties of basic fluid flow we which know today as “Bernoulli’s Principle” (The Doc). Though many are informed on…

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    apologist and writer, his theology often fails to meet the standards of most Evangelicals and is often at odds with the broader Evangelical community. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland in the winter of 1898. Lewis was the son of a clergyman and a mathematician. Lewis’s father, Albert James Lewis, was a clergyman. In his autobiography, Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, he describes his father as a man if he hadn’t gone to the church would have been a pollution to the courts (p. 4).…

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