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i want question & answer in 8th class. then i want to give test online paper
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D'Alembert's ratio test, or simply the ratio test, is a way of determining whether certain series converge. It goes like this: to...
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He is known for quartic equations.
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There are many great mathematicians who have formulas named after them. I'll start with Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783), and...
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Pythagorus.
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I understand that these folks are good at seeing the big picture, maybe you can be successful being an architect or Film...
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A K Ramanujan says about the river Vaikai in this poem.It floods once in a year.Then the poets will sing of it.The old as well as...
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Dr. Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made...
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He also studied mathmatics
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:= is pascal for assignment so : n:= 1+2 ; n is 3 pascal dont like mixed modes x:= 1.0 + 2.0 ; x is 3.0 ; semicolon is...
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George Boole invented Boolean algebra.
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One of his reasons for believing in god is that he knows (or thinks) that God is perfect. Since perfection includes existence, he...
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He discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head
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Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi is who invented algebra,and also algebra has a Arabic root which means something like [breaking a...
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Cartesian co-ordinate system.
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Charles Babbage is known as the father of computing. In 1822, while at the Cambridge University in UK, Charles Babbage was...
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Srinivasa Ramanujan died on April 26, 1920 at the age of 32.
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Karl W.T made important contributions in elliptical functions and the calculus of variations. He was also a lecturer and excelled...
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In general, the Laplace operator in n dimensions is ∇2 = (∂/∂x1)2 + (∂/∂x2)2 + ... + (∂/∂xn)2, and the...
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In the year 1936, The Turing machine was developed featuring computability and was considered a universal machine. I do not...
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Assuming you mean "the calculus of variations," all the big names were involved in its development; Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange,...
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He discovered gravitational force and established the three Universal Laws of Motion.
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Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who was born in 1642/3 (see related question for details) in Lincolnshire, UK. He...
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Charles Babbage made several plans to completing the computer in London. Babbage was born in London in 1791 and spent most of his...
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Pascal was most famous for Pascal's triangle. He also invented the 1st mechanical calculator. The Pascal's Triangle is a...
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He started his own school, Lyceum, named after Apolle Lyceum, he tutored Alexander the Great, and he started the study of logic. ...
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AC circuit analysis, for one.
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A boat displaces it's own weight of water, when floating.The trick is to make sure that there is enough waterplane area and...
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AnswerFibonacci was most famous for his contribution to mathematics, specifically the Fibonacci sequence.The Fibonacci Sequence...
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Fibonacci was most famous for his contribution to mathematics, specifically the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci Sequence is as...
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I copied this straight from Wikipedia, the link to the page can be found below. Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570-c. 495 BC) was an...
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The word algebra is a Latin variant of the Arabic word al-jabr. This came from the title of a book, "Hidab al-jabr wal-muqubala",...
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The triangular array of binomial coefficients (triangle) was discussed by Persian Mathematician Al-Karaji (953-1029) and later...
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I think it was Bernoulli, but Im not sure though
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Charles Babbage Born December 26, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire UK, Died 1871, London; Known to some as the "Father of...
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No one did. Aristotle was born and died over 200 years before the birth of the Christ.
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John Napier discovered Jupiter when he was three years old! Lol
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Copernicus was from Thorn, Poland. Michael Montagne, his father, was Polish and his mother was German. These countries still...
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For the pronunciation listen to the video at 00:35, listed below under related links.
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Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791.
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http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Boltzmann_distribution/
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Yes, there are Chebyshev polynomials of the third and fourth kind, not just the first and second. The third kind is often...
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If you are asking about formal training, at least a PhD. So that means 4 years of college, and then 2 or more for a masters and...
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Joseph Fourier was born on March 21, 1768.
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The way most pronounce it today is 'thay-leez', but in ancient Greek it was pronounced 't-hay-leez' Mike
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The Copernicus model contributed to the modern understanding of the Solar System greatly. This is because Copernicus discovered...
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From the Wikipedia article (linked to the left of this answer under Web Links):Thales of Miletus (pronounced tahl-es), also known...
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Theorem :- Let M=(Q,S,δ,q0,F) be an Finite Automate and has n number of states. Let L be the regular language accepted by M .Let...
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Blaise built the calculator in france in a town called rouen.
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You typically have 30 miles of driving available, depending upon your gas mileage. The 2002 odyssey has about 4.5 gallons left...
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Karl Pearson
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there are 16 ounces in a pint so an ounce has 0.0625 pints 16 ounces r in 1 pint ( pt.)
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There are nothing sure about his life.
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born on October 19, 1910.
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"A gambler's dispute in 1654 led to the creation of a mathematical theory of probability by two famous French mathematicians,...
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Thales taught as follows:"Water constituted (ὑπεστήσατο, 'stood under') the principle of all things."Thales drew his...
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Euclid is the founder of Euclidean geometry, which is the most common form of geometry which is known to to the general populace...
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Descartes is a famous and well noted European mathematician who lived hundreds of years ago. He pioneered many of the complex...
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ARchimes work on the crown to see how gold first weight and then weight the crown to see if it was real gold not silver
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Depending on your month and date of birth. If your birthday has already passed this year, you would be 19. If not, you're 18. (in...
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Dr. John Von Neumann was a mathematician who wrote approximately 150 papers that were published over the course of his life.His...
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He was one of the three greatest mathamaticans of all time
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Albert einstein
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Joseph Fourier Fourier was born at Auxerre in the Yonne département of France, the son of a tailor. He was orphaned at age...
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The first recorded use of trigonometry came from the Hellenistic mathematician Hipparchus circa 150 BC, who compiled a...
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started own school started study of logic tutored Alex the Great developed crude system of classification excelled in marine...
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84 years, 2 months and 23 days, 83 years, 2 months and 23 days, 84 years and 3 months, 84 years, 3 months and 6 days, between 84...
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Archimedes did many things, such as: developed ideas that proved essential to the formation of calculus, found a very accurate...
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Euclid's parallel axiom is false in non-Euclidean geometry because non-Euclidean geometry occurs within a different theory of...
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Many thousands from famous scientists to ordinary school children
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To make an abacus, the first thing to do is to make a frame, the wooden edge around an abacus. Then add the separator, the wooden...
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Alan Turing didn't invent Enigma you complete inbacile. He cracked the code that the Germans were sending with the Enigma machine...
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You should format your question a little differently.
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Fourier wished to know when the Earth began: Fourier was much more a scientist by inclination than a mathematician. But he was...
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If a straight line falling on two straight linesmakes the interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two...
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Nobody knows for sure, but he most likely invented it while in Egypt.
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There was a demand for a huge number of manual calculations to create tables - many of them for navigational purposes - where...
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All I can tell you is that as of April 2004, he was alive and a professor at the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences in the...
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L. Euler stands alone as one of the greatest mathematicians ever, as well as one of the greatest mathematical teachers ever....
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Factor A number that divides evenly into a larger number.Ex. The factors of 12 would be 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12.
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Descartes 3 goals are: Find a unified set of principles, reconcile the mechanistic view of the world with human freedom, and to...
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Grigori Perelman
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Most countries recognize the Pythagorean Theorem
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