Mathematician

Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch Mathematician and Scientist in the late 17th century. It becomes difficult at this stage to be any more specific than that, as his achievements are in fields so varied and so far-reaching that the only description of him that fits is ‘polymath’. Indeed, we are only learning of some achievements today, as his reticence to publish many of his works kept many of them from seeing the light of day for quite some time (Igorevich). He was born in the cold April of 1626 in…

Alan Turing was misunderstood, to say the least. The man we now regard as the father of modern computer science was heavily criticized and discouraged during his life for various reasons. Nonetheless, Turing was an incomparable mathematician way ahead of his time, and he made major contributions to the math and technology fields, helping win World War II and creating a path for modern computers to become a reality. We recognize him today with great honor and respect, but throughout his lifetime,…

Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and writer from England who is commonly known as the first computer programmer. Ada worked with Charles Babbage on his Analytical Engine, a proposed mechanical, general-purpose computer and the beginnings of computer programming. Her notes included the first of what is now known as an algorithm. She is the only legitimate child of the Romantic poet, Lord Byron. ==Young Life and Education== Ada Lovelace was born Augusta Ada Byron King on December…

Raphael's famous painting The School of Athens is the most praised bits of artwork from the age of the Renaissance. The fresco was painted in the High Renaissance of Humanism and is the perfect encapsulation of the established classical spirit. Raphael's "School of Athens" is considered by numerous modern art historians to be irrefutably the masterpiece of the Renaissance. The school of Athens symbolizes the hypothesis that set the support for the modern thinking. In the three stories,…

Manipulatives and Their Importance in Education Mathematics can be one of the more difficult areas of curriculum for young children and even adults to grasp. Due to this complex challenge that math instruction provides, mathematicians have tried to come up with a various ways to teach mathematics in the classroom that is both effective and engaging. In the early 1800’s, a German teacher named Friedrick Froebel was credited with the creation of the first manipulatives. Froebel’s manipulatives…

During the era of World War 2, the British government was secretly trying to crack Enigma, that was until Alan Turing has shown up. Alan Turing was a mathematician, who believed that he could invent a machine that could process encrypted messages and solve them. Although everyone he worked with him though he was truly a madman, he kept working on it each day even though there could be hundreds of people…

It was the summer before junior year the first time I met her. She was one of our new freshman on the team and a very crazy one at that. She was the loudest most obnoxious freshman I had ever met. One day we were all at open field and it started to rain really bad so we called it early. None of the freshman could drive so being the good upperclassmen that I was decided to give them a ride home. But my very obnoxious little freshman's parents weren’t home so we went to get ice cream until they…

their great civilization. Why they abandoned their lushes forests and jaw dropping monuments. Although, Mayans still exist in coastal regions of modern day Latin American countries, these individuals are descendants of those great constructors, mathematicians and astronomers of ancient times. Most of what we know about them today has been discovered and, learned in recent years. The Mayans had many astonishing achievements, but the most remarkable one was their trading system. Although, their…

Instead, they are crucial to support the economy. America is lack of scientists, engineers and mathematicians. Schools today only teach within approved educational guidelines not bring the children to advance level. Teachers are not encouraging the students enough to take more science classes. We need to develop future scientist in-house and encourage…

philosophical future. Spending four years studying law at the University of Poitiers, Descartes later joined the army and was introduced to Isaac Beeckman, a Dutch scientist and philosopher whom Descartes was highly influenced. Descartes was considered a mathematician based on majority of his works including the Cartesian geometry, his laws of refraction, and his study on theoretical physics. Descartes developed the concept of methodological skepticism which is also known as Cartesian doubt…