George Boole and Sophie Germain played a major role in how math is looked at today. They were able to prove many factors, but it definitely was not easy for them. They did not give up and found themselves with many successes throughout their journey.
George Boole, or other wise known as the Father of Logic, was born on November 2, 1815 in England. Son of Mary Ann Joyce and John Boole, he was one of 5 children growing up. He was often looked to to help out with his siblings matured and was the one that was believed to mature the fastest. Boole began making shoes, but then showed an interest in working as a mathematician. What first triggered that thrill for becoming a mathematician was when he wanted to figure out how to solve a problem he had been having making instruments. At this time, he was deeply involved in mechanics. As a young boy, Boole went to a school of the town’s tradesmen’s children. Also when he was young, he was taught by a Latin tutor and later on went on to teach himself Greek. By the time he was 14, he had taught himself so much greek that it enraged in a disagreement in the their government. He had transliterated a short story by a famous Greek poet Meleager. The local schoolmaster had an issue believing that a teenager had this much talent and write in as much depth as Boole did. In the end, he was able to convince the school master that he was right. He never had any other problems with that man. He later attended Bainbridges Commercial Academy in Lincoln.
This was not the education that he seeked, but it was all that his parents could afford after his parents went bankrupt less than a year before. However, with the help of Commercial, he was able to teach himself French and German.He did not study for a de...
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...my of science and scientists, was founded. Sophie was denied because of her gender, but received lecture notes from her friends to keep her inspired. She was inspired by Legrange, a notable mathematician of the time. In 1801, Germain wrote a paper on the famous German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. In 1816, Germain submitted her paper of which won the grand prize from the French Academy for her work on the law of vibrating elastic surfaces. Her theory helped to explain and predict the patterns formed by powder or sand on elastic surface. Sophie died in 1831 at the age of 55, suffering from breast cancer, she had been in pain for two years. She died just before she was to receive an honorary doctor’s degree. There, she would have also have finally met Gauss, the one who really inspired her. She was also the one who recommend that the degree be granted to Sophie.
... year to travel Europe and founded a dislike towards western Europe. His introduction to different European teaching methods and its various experts in education to inspire what would become an interest in academic systems. He returned with a wealth of knowledge and opened an experimental school for the peasant children living on his estate and lands. He applied the teachings and beliefs of his favorite philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and denied any use of reward or punishment as motivation, abolished grades, and emphasized spontaneity of education. He had developed a school that would cater to the uninterested minds that he was apart of as a young boy and adult. Finally satisfied of the years of freedom earned from his bachelor life, Leo settled to marry. He married Sofya (“Sonya”) Andreyevna Bers: a noble lady, well-educated, and appreciator of music and art.
...acknowledged as the greatest women mathematician of the 1900’s, even though she had to go through many obstacles and chauvinism. She was the first women to be accepted into a major college. She proved many of the stereotypes that women were considered to be erroneous, which in the long run also made her a famous person. She was the one who discovered the associative law, commutative law, and the distributive law. These are the Laws that make the basics for Algebra, Geometry, and Basic math. All together she has unquestionably earned the title as the most famous woman mathematician of the 1900’s.
Education is a topic that can be explored in many ways. Education is looked at in depth by both Richard Rodriguez in his essay, “The Achievement of Desire”, and by Paulo Freire in his essay, “The ‘Banking’ Concept of Education.” After reading both essays, one can make some assumptions about different methods of education and exactly by which method Rodriguez was taught. The types of relationships Rodriguez had with his teachers, family and in life were affected by specific styles of education.
...ting, and “ciphering”. He never went to school for longer than one year total in his childhood. He read all the books he could get his hand on by borrowing. He never learned enough to qualify as an education with the exception of reading and writing. He acquired his education through self taught methods “under the pressure of necessity.” He was not an avid reader because of the limitations of books but he read as much as he could.
DeMorgan made his greatest contributions to knowledge. The renaissance of logical studies, which began in the first half of the 19th century, was due almost entirely to the writings of the two British mathematicians, DeMorgan and G. Boole. He always laid much stress upon the importance of logical training. His importance in the history of logic’s, however, primarily due to his realization that the subject as it had come down from Aristole was unnecessarily restricted scope. By reflecting on the processes of mathematics, he was led like Boole, to the conviction that a far larger number of valid inference were possible that had hitherto been recognized.
Michael Guillen, the author of Five Equations that Changed the World, choose five famous mathematician to describe. Each of these mathematicians came up with a significant formula that deals with Physics. One could argue that others could be added to the list but there is no question that these are certainly all contenders for the top five. The book is divided into five sections, one for each of the mathematicians. Each section then has five parts, the prologue, the Veni, the Vidi, the Vici, and the epilogue. The Veni talks about the scientists as a person and their personal life. The Vidi talks about the history of the subject that the scientist talks about. The Vici talks about how the mathematician came up with their most famous formula.
His pursuit of knowledge became even more important when he entered the university of Ingolstadt. He "read with ardour" (35) and soon become "so ardent and eager that the stars often disappeared in the light of the morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory" (35). He was a proud product of the Enlightenment...
No other scholar has affected more fields of learning than Blaise Pascal. Born in 1623 in Clermont, France, he was born into a family of respected mathematicians. Being the childhood prodigy that he was, he came up with a theory at the age of three that was Euclid’s book on the sum of the interior of triangles. At the age of sixteen, he was brought by his father Etienne to discuss about math with the greatest minds at the time. He spent his life working with math but also came up with a plethora of new discoveries in the physical sciences, religion, computers, and in math. He died at the ripe age of thirty nine in 1662(). Blaise Pascal has contributed to the fields of mathematics, physical science and computers in countless ways.
There have been many great mathematicians in the world, though many are not well known. People have been studying math for ages, the oldest mathematical object dated all the way back to around 35,000 BC. There are still mathematicians today, studying math and figuring out ways to improve the mathematical world. Some of the most well-known mathematicians include Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Aristotle. These mathematicians (and many more) have influenced the mathematical world and mathematics would not be where it is today without them. There were many great individuals who contributed greatly in mathematics but there was one family with eight great mathematicians who were very influential in mathematics. This was the Bernoulli family. The Bernoulli family contributed a lot to mathematics, medicine, physics, and other areas. Even though they were great mathematicians, there was also hatred and jealousy between many of them. These men did not want their brothers or sons outdoing them in mathematics. Most Bernoulli fathers told their sons not to study mathematics even if they wanted. They were told to study medicine, business, or law, instead, though most of them found a way to study mathematics. The mathematicians in this family include Jacob, Johann, Daniel, Nicolaus I, Nicolaus II, Johann II, Johann III, and Jacob II Bernoulli.
Alexander-Gustave Eiffel was an only son and the first child of Catherine- Melanie Eiffel and Francois-Aleixandre. He was born on December 15, 1832, in Dijon, France. Eiffel’s dad was a soldier in the French army, and he had run away from his wealthy family. He had to go back to Dijon, France, where an army was stationed there. That was where he had met Catherine Eiffel, and later married her and became one of Mrs. Eiffel’s family of wealthy lumber merchants. Eiffel recalled that in Dijon, his childhood was one of the happiest times of his life. Eiffel was really close to his mother. Therefore, she was the one who taught him a lot of the early education things. That is how he got his intelligence. Eiffel also looked forward to Sundays, because his uncle, jean batiste mollerat. He was a successful chemist. He would go to Eiffel’s home every Sunday, and teach his chemistry to Eiffel. Later in his life, Eiffel went to a nearby Royal School where he thought was a place of wasting time and not learning anything, and his grades were very low. Later he stated that that school was the worst part of his life. His last 2 years of school were great. Thanks to his teacher’s effort, he was especially great in the subjects of Science and Literature. His grades soon got so much better the he graduated with a double baccalaureate on literature and science. After graduation, he had to get rea...
Carl Friedrich Gauss is revered as a very important man in the world of mathematicians. The discoveries he completed while he was alive contributed to many areas of mathematics like geometry, statistics, number theory, statistics, and more. Gauss was an extremely brilliant mathematician and that is precisely why he is remembered all through today. Although Gauss left many contributions in each of the aforementioned fields, two of his discoveries in the fields of mathematics and astronomy seem to have had the most tremendous effect on modern day mathematics.
Ada Lovelace was the daughter of famous poet at the time, Lord George Gordon Byron, and mother Anne Isabelle Milbanke, known as “the princess of parallelograms,” a mathematician. A few weeks after Ada Lovelace was born, her parents split. Her father left England and never returned. Women received inferior education that that of a man, but Isabelle Milbanke was more than able to give her daughter a superior education where she focused more on mathematics and science (Bellis). When Ada was 17, she was introduced to Mary Somerville, a Scottish astronomer and mathematician who’s party she heard Charles Babbage’s idea of the Analytic Engine, a new calculating engine (Toole). Charles Babbage, known as the father of computer invented the different calculators. Babbage became a mentor to Ada and helped her study advance math along with Augustus de Morgan, who was a professor at the University of London (Ada Lovelace Biography Mathematician, Computer Programmer (1815–1852)). In 1842, Charles Babbage presented in a seminar in Turin, his new developments on a new engine. Menabrea, an Italian, wrote a summary article of Babbage’s developments and published the article i...
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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...