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Mathematician Essays and Term Papers
The Life Of Gottfried LeibnizLeibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, also Leibnitz, Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von (1646-1716), German philosopher, mathematician, and statesman, regarded as one of the supreme intellects of the 17th century.
Leibniz was born in Leipzig. He was educated at the universities of Leipzig, Jena, and Altdorf. ...
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Albert Einstein And His TheoriesEinstein, Albert (1879-1955), German-born American physicist and Nobel
laureate, best known as the creator of the special and general theories of
relativity and for his bold hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light.
He is perhaps the most well-known scientist of the 20th century. ...
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The Lost World 2The lost world was written to entice the minds of nonbelievers. Michael Crichton the author shows what could happen if science was to progress to such a high height. A few scientists go looking for an island where supposedly these are live dinosaurs. Once on the island the adventurers find out ...
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Galileo 3Galileo Galilei was one of the greatest astronomer and mathematician of the seventeenth century. His support of support of Copernican cosmology against the Church’s strong opposition and his development of a telescope and his unorthodox opinions as philosopher of science were the central ...
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GalileoMany individuals in history have been accredited for numerous accomplishments like Galilei, the first known physicist. Although he was not considered a physicist in his time, he provided procedures and results that lie at the heart of what is known today as physics. In Galilei, James MacLachlan ...
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Galileo GallileiGalileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. Galileo was the first of seven children of Vincenzio Galilei, a trader and Giula Ammannati, an upper-class woman who married below her class. When Galileo was a young boy, his father moved the family moved to Florence. Galileo moved ...
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Greek Literature.
The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once
commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato . A similar point can
be made regarding as a whole.
Over a period of more than ten centuries, the ancient Greeks created a
literature of such brilliance that it ...
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Computer ScienceStudy of the theory, experimentation, and engineering that form the
basis for the design and use of computers—devices that automatically
process information. traces its roots to work done by
English mathematician Charles Babbage, who first proposed a programmable
mechanical calculator in 1837. ...
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Big BangFifteen billion years ago, give or take five billion years, the entirety of our universe was compressed into the confines of an atomic nucleus. Known as a singularity, this is the moment before creation when space and time did not exist. According to the prevailing cosmological models that ...
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The History Of Medicineis like a huge puzzle, and it has taken many
tortuous and gruesome routes to try to fit the pieces together. It has
gone from ancient myths that attempted to explain disease to the great
capabilities of today's medicine.
The first crude forms of medicine go back to prehistoric man. ...
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Euclidean GeometryGeometry was thoroughly organized in about 300 BC, when the Greek
mathematician Euclid gathered what was known at the time, added original work of
his own, and arranged 465 propositions into 13 books, called 'Elements'. The
books covered not only plane and solid geometry but also much of what is ...
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Nies BohrNiels Hendrik David Bohr was one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century. The Nobel prizewinning physicist was known for his development of the theory of atomic fission that led to the development of the atomic bomb. He was born on Oct. 7, 1885, in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father, ...
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The Manhattan ProjectOn the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over
the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb
ever. The city went up in flames caused by the immense power equal to
about 20,000 tons of TNT. The project was a success. They were ...
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Creative Story: Deadlock"Bzzz! Bzzz!" The alarm went off, and Susan Calvin rolled over. It was 6:30
in the morning, and RoboTimer™ had done its job admirably, waking her up to the
second of the time that it had been factory-programmed. Unfortunately, it hadn't
been set to the correct date, and when it announced ...
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Flatland: Social Satire Of Victorian English SocietyIn his most inspiring masterpiece of science titled Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott intended a social satire of Victorian England's society, and an expression of his efforts to advance the cause of education for women and classes lower than the English aristocracy which are the priests. Abbott was a ...
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Seeing Through Salvador Dalí's Kaleidoscopic EyesSalvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí I Domènech was the son of Salvador Dalí
Cusí and Felipa Domènech Ferrés. He was born on the lackadaisical day of
May 11, 1904. Dalí later claimed to have been named after an older brother
that had died at the age of twenty-two months, but in actuality he was
dubbed ...
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GalileoGalilei, an Italian Scientist, was the man who discovered and created many theories that shaped the modern sciences.
was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564 to Vincenzio Galilei and was the first child in his family. His family was part of the Italian nobility, though they weren¹t rich. ...
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History Of ComputersOnly once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every
aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play
is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists
in nearly every business in the US and one out of every two ...
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The Lost World: SummaryI read Michael Crichton's The Lost World. In the following paragraphs, I will
not only explain the book, but also give my critique of it. I will also give a
paragraph that was probably the best paragraph in the book, in my opinion.
The book starts out with Ian Malcolm, a mathematician who had ...
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Albert EinsteinMarch 14 1879 - April 18 1955 Born Ulm, Germany. Died Princeton, USA.
was a very famous Scientist, he was mostly famous for his
theory of Relativity. In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan and Einstein
decided officially to relinquish his German citizenship in favor of Swiss. In
1895 Einstein ...
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