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Mathematical Connection

Mathematics has had an incredible impact on technology as we know it today. Understanding this impact aids in understanding the history of how technology has developed so thoroughly and what significant events happened to facilitate such an advanced society. A better understanding can be derived by analyzing the historical background on the mathematicians, the time periods, and the contributions that affected their society and modern society as well as specific examples of how the mathematical developments affected society.

Math had and has a great impact in technology. During the 20th century mathematics made very quick advances on all fronts. Mathematics sped up the development of symbolic logic as the foundation of Math became solidly grounded. Aside from logic, physics and philosophy also benefited from the quantum theory and the relativity theory during this time. New fields were developed like the chaos theory, the game theory and computational mathematics. During the 20th century, mathematics reached broader application than any other time before.

David Hilbert – (1862-1943) was born in East Prussia. He studied and taught at the University of Konigsberg, East Prussia until the mid 1890's. He soon transferred to the University of Gottingen which he later developed into a very popular mathematical center.

Hilbert was a mathematician of many fields like calculus of variations and the number theory. However he made a significant contribution in the field of geometry. His contribution to integral equations influenced the study in functional analysis.

Alfred North Whitehead - (1861-1947) Born in Ramsgate, England Whitehead was a professor of Mathematics at the Univers...

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