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Ten of History’s Greatest Mathematicians

1585 The beginning rudiments of mathematics began practically at the beginning of mans reign on the earth. The first indiv...

Goldbach's Conjecture: An Abstract

18th century mathematical thinkers. More substantively, though, this study will define the transformation of Goldbachs conjecture...

Galileo's Impact On The Scientific Revolution

connection between science and religion is not easily attained, inasmuch as science is based in a foundation of undeniable proof, ...

Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind Cinematic Analysis

harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...

19th Century French Mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy

own background also needs consideration, as the work was also a reflection of the man and his circumstances. After this some examp...

Americans With Disabilities Act and its Business Implications

In seventeen pages this paper considers the 1990 ADA and its small business implications with a discussion of the Act, case histor...

Using Animals for Research in Medicine

In a paper consisting of five pages the writer argues that using animals for medical research purposes is necessary because doing ...

The Impact of Human Elements on Organizational Goals

elements are important and have an important role to play then just as they offer opportunity, they also present risk. This can be...

Managing Managed Health Care

In a paper consisting of ten pages managed health care system's many challenges are discussed with HMOs specifically addressed in ...

Existential Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

In ten pages this paper considers a case study of a childhood abuse adult survivor and which type of therapy would provide the gre...

1950 to 1970 Western European Integration, Economic or Political Factors?

Disaster after disaster followed one upon another through the middle nineteen forties that had Europe scrambling for cover (Rosenb...

Post Second World War Presidential Assessment

He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...

HOMELESSNESS AND INHERENT HUMAN RIGHTS

Safe and secure housing is but one of many rights withheld from those whose circumstances – whether through mental illness, financ...

Process of Health Promotion in the Media vs. Peer/Family Influence for Individual Change

be argued, then, that peer and family factors play a major role in how health messages are spread to change at-risk behaviors. Pu...

How Does Cigarette Smoking Relate To Global Issues Of The Future

* PCBs, water 3.4 * Radon 3.4 * PCBs, fish 3.5 * Mercury, fish 3.5 * Dioxins, air 3.7 *...

Biography of Sir Christopher Wren

the inner circle, much like the royal physicians (Jardine, 2002). His sister married and her husband, Holder, became Christophers...

Math in Cinema

to computers to cell phones is digital in nature, that is, totally a product of math; yet, few of us understand how math makes the...

Jordanus Nemorarius And Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci

to those given by al-Khwarizmi" (OConnor and Robertson, 2003). Jordanus proofs had to do with "the method of completing the square...

Euclid of Alexandria; The Elements

Elements, to which he replied that there was no royal road to geometry. He is therefore younger than Platos circle, but older than...

Mathematician Leonhard Euler's Life and Works

of lieutenant, but gave up his military commitments when he became professor of physics in 1730: since this mean that he was a ful...

Conjecture of Pierre de Fermat Refuted by Mathematician Leonhard Euler

to surface and Johann Bernoulli convinced Euler to pursue mathematics full time. As a mathematician, Euler published over 866 book...

Mathematician Blaise Pascal

the sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles" (Ball, 1960, p. PG). ?tienne was captivated by his sons mathema...

OVERVIEW OF MATHEMATICS HISTORY

however, early mathematics came right along with that. Richardson notes that Hieroglyphic numbers were introduced around 3,000 BCE...

Sir Isaac Newton, Biography

This essay present a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, renown 17th century mathematician and scientist. Three pages in length, two so...

A Summary of Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind

think that schizophrenics are actually people who have split personalities, but this is not a correct description of the disease a...

Real Analysis Conceptual History

traditional mathematical definition of space so that it could be utilized to compare figures (2002). Stahl (1999) provid...

Theory of 'Indeterminancy of Translation' by Willard V. Quine

was born in Akron, Ohio and would one day be considered as "the most significant philosopher to have written in English in the sec...

Life and Mathematics Contributions of Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri

Omni Naevo Vindicatus (1733) Saccheris early work on non-euclidean geometry was considered to be very important, although he did n...

Biography of Mathematician Josiah Willard Gibbs

In fifteen pages this Yale professor and U.S. mathematician is considered in a biographical overview. Four sources are cited in t...

Culture of Early Greece and the Value of Mathematics

In twelve pages this paper discusses the Greek cultural importance of mathematicians such as Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Pto...