Mathematician

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 50 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Mayan Calendar Dbq

    • 511 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The majority of us have always wondered how this time we often talk about became what it is now. Different cultures created calendars to reflect time within their cultures. Whether it is Egyptian, Gregorian or Mayan, they are all similar in the same way that these all made time according to their culture. They all contributed an idea of what our calendar is now. These cultures helped to improve by adding the significant symbol in which they believed in, and what the cultures thought were…

    • 511 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Essay On Sunspot Cycle

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages

    individual spots. However, an alternative form of the Wolf number is also available to use which is, [R=k(10g+f)] where “k” is the variable that attempts to account for other variables in the measurement. In either case, however, the number that the mathematician arrives at should be referred to as Wolf’s number. In doing so, the ability to make comparisons of data taken by different observers from different times was made…

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Noether was born in Bavaria, Germany on March 23, 1882. As a child, she loved to cook, and play clavier. She was also specialized in French and English. She died on April 14, 1935, when she was 53 years of age. Emmy was honored because she was a mathematician, which was a very difficult task for the women in the 1900’s. For 7 years she worked at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen without pay. But Because she was a woman, a Jew and a social democrat, she wasn’t given the name of being a…

    • 484 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Separate areas within the hospitals back then were set aside for people with diseases. Ibn and his studies changed the outcome of medical history with his books. The most important and influential muslim inventions that changed the world was medicine, astronomy, and geography. Their are people that will argue with this statement, but, the evidence shows otherwise. Some may say that music is the most important Muslim innovation. It says in the Huffington Post “ The modern guitar developed as a…

    • 500 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    John Nash Stereotypes

    • 490 Words
    • 2 Pages

    I said “You know there was this man named John Nash, he was a mathematician, a smart man; who is living a good life. And this girl who is a now a mom, she was diagnosed in college too, she is fine now.” Some how everything I said, calmed her down. She was acting weird all day. But at night she talked to me. She told…

    • 490 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    learned about the story of a brilliant scientist, Sir Isaac Newton among with one of his most famous questions, “If the apple falls, does the moon also falls?” Born on December 25, 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was a renowned english physicists and mathematicians, who was best known for his law of gravitational forces. In 1665, as young Isaac sits under an apple tree, he realized the fall of an apple. He proclaimed that the force pulling the apple onto the ground and the force keeping the moon in…

    • 460 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Chosen “The Chosen” is a novel by Chaim Potok following the friendship of two Jewish boys who grew up in Brooklyn nearing the end of World War II. Chaim Potok introduces many relationships throughout the book, this includes David Malter and Reb Saunders. Throughout the story, we begin recognizing the differences between the two fathers as well as the similarities. Reb Saunders raised Danny Saunders in silence, meaning that Reb does not speak to his own son unless they are studying the…

    • 456 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Man was created in the image and likeness of God.” (Genesis 1:26) This particular portion of the Sistine Chapel is so well-known that it can be identified by the hands alone. Lastly, after analysis, scientists and mathematicians believe that Michelangelo created this in relationship to the Golden Ratio or Divine Proportions. This is based on the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet – Phi. Phi is 1.618 and this represents balance and harmony. Many believe that if a painting…

    • 486 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Immortalization

    • 509 Words
    • 3 Pages

    possibly be reflective? The author provides evidence within the text in paragraph 12 of the text: "I hope it sets a new example for both girls and boys," Weinstock told the BBC. "Girls, in that they can and should be engineers, scientists, and mathematicians, and boys, in that they internalize at an early age that these careers are for everyone, not only men." What is the reader supposed to think while reading this? Obviously, they are going to think about the inspirational value of the Lego…

    • 509 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Our nation has many different cultures, traditions, and beliefs. Because of these beliefs and the different cultures. It has helped shape our nation into what it is today. Without the different trades and cultures this country would not be as diversity as we are today. Think about who you are and what nationality you are. Chances are you have blood that comes from another country which means that somewhere in your family tree there were family members that immigrated here. The inventions that…

    • 486 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Page 1 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
    Next