Pure mathematics

because I loved mathematics, but I had no idea what I wanted to do with that love once I graduated. I wrote about the teacher who almost ruined my chances of being a successful student, and how vigorously I fought to get to where I am today. When the email came informing me of my denial, my heart sank. I had expected to be sad but I did not expect to be heartbroken because at that time I really had no idea what I wanted to do. However, that feeling made me realize that I loved mathematics…

My Math Autobiography My relationship with math is neutral. I don’t hate it but I wouldn’t do it in my free time. I like that it takes a lot of energy to do it. I don’t like that how tough it is or how useless you feel if you don’t understand it. I have to work at math. I find it really tough and have usually made it through with a D-. I can't quite remember a time in my life I was any good at math. All through elementary school I felt everyone was always two steps ahead of me. I remember…

Growing up, I had always loved challenging myself by building and designing things. From childhood hobbies like drawing to learning how to sew pajamas to attempting to build the Eiffel Tower out of Popsicle sticks, I never failed to find new outlets for my creativity. In fact, the reason why I decided that I wanted to pursue engineering was because of a simulation game I liked to play whenever I had free time. In the game, I was able to design and build the most opulent and expensive houses that…

The idea that women do not belong in STEM or are not good enough to be in STEM has to start somewhere. Discrimination starts in the classroom and carries over into the workplace. Education is essential for STEM related jobs, and women are not as likely to go into STEM because of the experience in the classroom or the lack thereof. Studies have shown that high school is not too late to introduce an interest in STEM, to girls specifically. “..science education in the United States is not tapping…

In the textbook, on page 201, it says, "Today in the sciences, books are usually either texts or retrospective upon one aspect or another of the scientific life." I believe that all textbooks, articles, and anything else that scientists published are quite complicated to assume that they are readable which means they can sound good while you read them but afterwards, they are not. I, however, think that it is impossible to disagree with something you just read because it sounds good and it seem…

Every great discovery begins with the triggering of interest. An event or a finding sparks the interest in a scientist, and after countless hours of research, the discovery is complete. The same held true for my discovery of RPI. At my high school, there is an annual junior awards ceremony at which the top students of the junior class receive special awards, usually linked to colleges. One of the awards being given out was the Rensselaer Medalist Award, and I happened to be the recipient.…

Math in the Brain Scientists have found, through research using brain-imaging analysis, that the brain does not work like we once thought it did. It was previously thought that the way the brain works out a math problem is totally different than what was previously understood. The research found four different stages of the brain while working a math problem that disproved the theory that math in the brain is performed in the same place as language processing (Weisberger, 2016). The research…

It was a Tuesday afternoon and the heat in Mr. Martin's room felt as if we were next to the sun. The schools maintenance crew always kept the furnace on the highest setting possible. “So class what did we talk about yesterday ?” said Mr. Martin as he takes out the 590 page textbook on accounting and finance. “We talked about how to find assets, liabilities and owner's equity,” says Ms. Know” it all in the front of the classroom.” As Mr. Martin begins his lesson, I quietly whisper to my best…

has discovered many laws and theories within the new areas. He also made some contributions to a science-linked topic called chemistry, as it included to Newton being a main supporter of the atomic theory. Romanowski (2014) tells us that Isaac mathematics was important as he came up with the area of binominal theorem. Binominal was a simple method to identify the coefficients. The Binominal theorem was invented to help with the topics of probability and statistics. The discovery of the…

He opened a school called the Semicircle and set up a brotherhood for both men and women. He became a priest of Diaspolis, and he started his own religion called Mathematikoi. He is known for making many mathematic discoveries during his life. He was the first to prove that the sum of a triangle is equal to two right angles, and that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the square of the other two sides. It is believed that he…