Mathematician

I selected Grace Hopper for my famous mathematician project. I chose this Mathematician because she seemed like an interesting person and I wanted to learn more about her. Grace Hopper was born on December 9, 1906 in New York, New York and she died on January 1, 1992. She died at the age of 85 years old. Some historical events that happened in the world during Grace Hopper's life were: in 1906 the San Francisco earthquake happened. Also in January of 1933 Hitler started to take over in Germany.…

Abstract— This article will briefly discuss the evolution of zero throughout history starting from ancient Mesopotamian mathematics to modern day mathematics. Understanding the concept of zero and learning to work with it is the basis of our world today. If zero did not exist then we would not have calculus, financial accounting, and the ability to make simple arithmetic calculations. The idea of zero has crossed the imagination of great minds across the globe. Zero functions as a placeholder…

a vital factor in solving and using math theories and hypothesis. Mathematicians use “theories, computation techniques, algorithms, and computer technology to solve scientific, and engineer equations.”("Career Cornerstone Center: Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Medicine." Career Cornerstone Center: Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Medicine. Web. 28 Feb. 2015.). An example of a mathematician using a theory or hypothesis to solve an equation may use a…

Religious Influence on the Spread of Mathematics An Academic response to The Music of the Spheres Some may find it hard to believe that the greatest of all historical mathematicians were influenced by their own spiritual and religious beliefs, and indeed, without religion, one could argue that we would not have advanced to the mathematics we have today. Surely, humanity would have eventually arrived to the same fundamental understands of numbers and geometry, but one has to doubt if the…

Katherine johnson was born on August 26, 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Katherine johnson is an African American physicist mathematician who made contributions to the United States aeronautics space program with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA. Katherine Johnson loves to count, she love to count steps to the road, the steps up to church, and the numbers of silverware and dishes she washed. At a young age she was very excited to go to school, when she…

This paper will look at the series that converge to pi, and which ones slowly converge to pi and the ones that converge to pi fast. And after looking at these different calculations of pi, I will attempt to find a series that converges to pi even faster. What lead me to do this topic was my passion for math, and curiosity of learning about series and limits to infinity. Pi is something that everybody knows as 3.14, but they have no idea how it came to be approximated as 3.14. It is a complex…

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky and His Work Like many other truly great mathematicians Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky came from a humble background, worked hard to raise himself to be highly renowned and died before the significance of his works could be truly accepted and appreciated. Lobachevsky was a rector and a professor of mathematics at Kazan University for nineteen years, devised a method for finding roots of a polynomial and published a plethora of material on algebra, numerical…

Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia was an Italian mathematician who lived from 1499/1500 to 1557. When he was 12, a French army attacked his town and home, and a soldier cut his face and throat. Left with a speech impediment, he became known by the name “Tartaglia,” which means “the stammerer” in Italian. Tartaglia made many great contributions to the world and specifically to mathematics. He is responsible for finding a solution for cubic equations, writing important…

Euler had 2 sisters. Later in his life, he had 13 children, with his first wife Katharina Gsell, though only 5 survived to adulthood. He had 2 spouses. Salome Abigail Gsell from 1776-1783, and Katharina Gsell from 1734-1773. Leonhard was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, which helped in him being one of the founders in pure mathematics. Euler contributed to analytic geometry and trigonometry. Euler's work also revolutionized the fields of calculus, geometry, and number theory. In Euler’s…

Life Hypatia was a famous mathematician in ancient greek. She was also a philosopher and an astronomer in Egypt, then played a part in the Byzantine Empire. In the school of Neoplatonic in Alexandria she was the smartest. She was the only daughter of Theon of Alexandria, who was also a famous mathematician. She was tutored by her father in Athens around the year 400. She was murdered by a mob of Christians, they were also referred to Parabolani after being accused of exacerbating a conflict…