Andre Marie Ampere was a French Physicist who had many great discoveries throughout his life. He was born on January 22, 1775 in Lyon, France. Ampere created electromagnetism, which started the science of electrodynamics. With this discovery the unit measure of electromagnetism was named after ampere. Ampere was born into a very financially set middle class family. Andre’s mother was a devout woman (Shank). She was a charitable and very religious (Fox). His father (Jean Jacques Ampere) was a successful merchant. Ampere combines both of his parent’s personal traits. His father was a big admirer of Jean Jacques Rousseau, a philosophy scientist. Amperes father believed that and education should be taught from nature and not taught from a school. Jean let his son educate himself in his own well stocked library. By the age of 12 Andre taught himself advanced mathematics. Andre’s mother made his is initiated within the catholic faith along with the Enlightenment of Science (Shank).
His father taught his Latin but after a while saw his son’s greater passion towards mathematics. However, Andre resumed his Latin lessons to enable him to study the work of famous mathematicians Leonhard Euler and Bernoulli. While in the study of his father’s library his favorite study books were George Louis Leclerc history book and Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond Encyclopedia, became Ampere’s schoolmasters (Andre). When Ampere finished in his father’s library he had his father take him to the library in Lyon. While there he studied calculus. A couple of weeks later he was able to do difficult treaties on applied mathematics (Levy, Pg. 135). Later in life he said “the new as much about mathematics when he was 18, than he knew in his entire life. His reading...
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...o death was he had found 3 culminating points of life: 1- Everyone should be involved in First Communion, 2- Read the reading of Thomas’s Enology of Descartes, and 3- Read the taking of Bastille (Andre). He also said in a letter to his friend that “Doubt, is the greatest torment that a man suffers on Earth.” His journal had a whole unknown side of Ampere that he didn’t let out (Fox).
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Blaise Pascal was born on 19 June 1623 in Clermont Ferrand. He was a French mathematician, physicists, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy that was educated by his father. After a horrific accident, Pascal’s father was homebound. He and his sister were taken care of by a group called Jansenists and later converted to Jansenism. Later in 1650, the great philosopher decided to abandon his favorite pursuits of study religion. In one of his Pensees he referred to the abandonment as “contemplate the greatness and the misery of man”.
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Abstract—The transition to calculus was a remarkable period in the history of mathematics and witnessed great advancements in this field. The great minds of the 17th through the 19 Centuries worked rigorously on the theory and the application of calculus. One theory started another one, and details needed justifications. In turn, this started a new mathematical era developing the incredible field of calculus on the hands of the most intelligent people of ancient times. In this paper, we focus on an amazing mathematician who excelled in pure mathematics despite his physical inability of total blindness. This mathematician is Leonard Euler.
However, the two men share very different views on death itself in their own personal lives.Meursault shows impartiality to death and accepts it as an everyday part of existence, as seen in the dismissal of his mother’s death and continuing on afterwards as if nothing had changed. Another example is when Meursault is faced with his own death sentence, Meursault considers and accepts his death saying, “That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. “But,” I reminded myself, “it’s common knowledge that life isn’t worth living, anyhow.” And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten—since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before...Once you’re up against it, the precise manner of your death has obviously small importance.” (pgs 70-71) This is an example a man who is not afraid of death, instead, is accepting of it and liberated by it as a true existentialist would. Juan Pablo Castel however, is an example of an existentialist man who fears death and the uncertainty brought along by it. Though he killed Maria without much hesitation and remorse, in his own personal life death was a frightening prospect and he was kept alive out of fear of the unknown as stated by
He begins by looking at the very common views of death that are held by most people in the world, and tells us that he will talk of death as the "unequivocal and permanent end to our existence" and look directly at the nature of death itself (1). The first view that
He took his teaching duties very seriously, while he was preparing lectures for his charge on variety an of topics about science. The first scientific work dates were all from this period. It involves topics, which would continue to occupy him throughout his life. In 1571, he began publication of his track. It was intended to form a preliminary mathematical part of a major study on the Ptolemaic astronomical model. He continued to embrace the Ptolemaic (Parshall 1).
He had sought a divine judgement when shooting the Arab, but when he was given a judgement in the name of something bigger than himself, he didn’t accept it. Some man was speaking on behalf of an entire population that had no say in his decision, and he was choosing to take away a man’s life. Meursault rejected the judge’s decision to execute him and believed every part of the case “seemed to distract from the seriousness of the decision” (109). Suddenly, when his life was the one in question, whether the judge decided to “either shoot or not shoot” (56) no longer “amounted to the same thing” (57). There are three simple ways to be connected to death: someone you know dies, you kill someone, or you die. Meursault experienced all three possible associations to death, but he never felt the profundity of death until he faced it personally. Death finally held some meaning if it meant he could no longer live. While Meursault struggled with empathy, he quickly felt the absoluteness of death upon hearing his sentence. This time, also, Meursault had uninterrupted days to think about the meaning of death. He eventually concluded that “since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter” (114). Even though he made this conclusion, Meursault still hoped for a miraculous pardon or flaw in the guillotine; therefore, it is clear that he wasn’t fully convinced of his own conclusion. He was about to be stripped of life and was unable to freely live his final days. Meursault finally understood why his father had gone to watch an execution. By watching a man’s life be taken in that way, a person learns to appreciate his or her own time alive. Meursault, to the chaplain’s dismay, refused to believe in life after death, and although he stated that it doesn’t matter when and how a person dies, Meursault lived his final days in a
World war one and two developed a sense of pessimism to the optimistic faith driven world. The suggestion that pessimism dominated the outlook of the world is out ruled in the perspective of an existentialist. The leading philosopher of this attitude Jean ?Paul Sartre believed that in passing judgment of individual?s actions one is being deceptive towards their own. To a spiritual individual this is unacceptable way of thought, coming to terms with the reality of living in purposeless world, would be end to a faith of a purposeful future which ultimately does not exist. In The Stranger Meursault comes to terms with his own execution as he realizes death will come for him weather it is today or five years from now this life is meaningless but he lived as he wanted (Fiero 71 -72).
Even though Aristotle’s contributions to mathematics are significantly important and lay a strong foundation in the study and view of the science, it is imperative to mention that Aristotle, in actuality, “never devoted a treatise to philosophy of mathematics” [5]. As aforementioned, even his books never truly leaned toward a specific philosophy on mathematics, but rather a form or manner in which to attempt to understand mathematics through certain truths.
Etienne Pascal was very concerned about his son becoming an educated man. This is why he decided to teach his son on his own. He brought a young Blaise to lectures and other gatherings. He decided Blaise would not study math until age 15. When he made this decision he took all the math books out of the family home; however, this did not stop a curious Pascal. At age twelve, he started to work on geometry by himself. Blaise’s father finally started to take him to mathematical gatherings at "Academic Parisienne." At the age of 16, Pascal began to play an active role in "Academic Parisienne," as the principal disciple of Girard Desargues, one of the heads of "Academic Par...
Carl Friedrich Gauss was born April 30, 1777 in Brunswick, Germany to a stern father and a loving mother. At a young age, his mother sensed how intelligent her son was and insisted on sending him to school to develop even though his dad displayed much resistance to the idea. The first test of Gauss’ brilliance was at age ten in his arithmetic class when the teacher asked the students to find the sum of all whole numbers 1 to 100. In his mind, Gauss was able to connect that 1+100=101, 2+99=101, and so on, deducing that all 50 pairs of numbers would equal 101. By this logic all Gauss had to do was multiply 50 by 101 and get his answer of 5,050. Gauss was bound to the mathematics field when at the age of 14, Gauss met the Duke of Brunswick. The duke was so astounded by Gauss’ photographic memory that he financially supported him through his studies at Caroline College and other universities afterwards. A major feat that Gauss had while he was enrolled college helped him decide that he wanted to focus on studying mathematics as opposed to languages. Besides his life of math, Gauss also had six children, three with Johanna Osthoff and three with his first deceased wife’s best fri...
...bsp;Using Analytic Geometry, geometry has been able to be taught in school-books in all grades. Some of the problems that are solved using Rene’s work are vector space, definition of the plane, distance problems, dot products, cross products, and intersection problems. The foundation for Rene’s Analytic Geometry came from his book entitled Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason in the Search for Truth in the Sciences (“Analytic Geomoetry”).
Burton, D. (2011). The History of Mathematics: An Introduction. (Seventh Ed.) New York, NY. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The 17th Century saw Napier, Briggs and others greatly extend the power of mathematics as a calculator science with his discovery of logarithms. Cavalieri made progress towards the calculus with his infinitesimal methods and Descartes added the power of algebraic methods to geometry. Euclid, who lived around 300 BC in Alexandria, first stated his five postulates in his book The Elements that forms the base for all of his later Abu Abd-Allah ibn Musa al’Khwarizmi, was born abo...
“I think, therefore I am” is well-known quote by René Descartes. He was considered a “Renaissance Man”, which meant that he was capable of obtaining a wide range of skills in many different fields. René Descartes was born in a town La Haye, a city south of France, on March 31st , 1596. He lived on until February 11th,1650. He is the son of Joachim Descartes, who was a councilor in Parliament. Descartes was a French mathematician, philosopher, and is frequently discussed as the inventor of the modern-day scientific method. He contributed to modern ideas such as related to science and rational thought. Descartes came from a wealthy family, and therefore had no financial worries. Descartes' father sent him to College Henri IV at La Feche at the age of only 8 (Finkel). The college was a newly established Jesuit school, which was known to be one of the best in Europe in terms of academic quality during that time. During 1614, Descartes left La Fleche in 1614 to study anon and civil law at Poitiers where he received his degrees in law two years later.(Finkel) However, he never practiced law. Nonetheless, in his prime, Descartes wanted to accomplish something in life that is based on the stable basis of all knowledge. Descartes many contributions helped the world significantly.