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If you want to know the full bio just go to match.about.com/library/blbiobabbage.htm its really good and i used it for a science...
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Although some unreliable sources list Charles Babbage's full name as Charles Henry Babbage, historians consistently refer to him...
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De Morgan's theorem is used to help simplify Boolean Expressions. Digital Circuits can be simplified by the application of this...
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maria agnesi had 21 siblings
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You probably need to see his chronological tree. You can search it on google or msn.
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The enemies were London Organ Grinders and other people who disagreed with his ideas.
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she cave a lot of money
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"The father of numbers."
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There is a good picture and biography of him at: http://space.about.com/od/astronomerbiographies/a/pythagorasbio.htm Otherwise...
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Copernicus' parents were Nicolaus Koppernigk - of which 'Copernicus' is the Latin form - and Barbara (Watzenrode).
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A horizontal lines go from left to right and look like this. Also, all horizontal lines are parallel to each other....
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I forget what its name is, but it is a theorem that states that in a polynomial function in the standard form there are possible,...
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When describing the power of the lever, he is reported to have said, "Give me a place firm enough to stand, and I could move the...
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Here are some: René Descartes Gottfried Leibniz Bernhard Riemann Leonhard Euler Peano Fibonacci Gauss Newton Galileo (mostly...
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Different types of mathematics can be applied to hockey. To answer your question, trigonometry, for example, can be used to...
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Alan Turing was an English mathematician. During World War 2 he worked on decyphering secret messages and invented a Turing...
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S. Ramanujan
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Algebra.
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Pumpkin pi a ll mode
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It was a law not the theory because this principle has also proved by him.
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Gebhard Dietrich Gauss and Dorothea Benz. Its Carl Friedrich Gauss, by the way.
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Descartes had one daughter.
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The formula is V-E+F=2 and it tells us that if we take the number of vertices a polyhedron has and subtract the number of edges...
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For a free fall, the effective value of acceleration due to gravity is zero. As a result, the buoyant force will not exit....
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he created the word math
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no. because he known for his universal law of gravitational and law of motion
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Pythagoras was a famous philosopher and perhaps the world's first scientist. In looking for a better/uniform way to tune his...
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Babbage proposed his difference engine in 1822 and his analytical engine some years later. Both were mechanical computers (like...
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Since Archimedes had so many ideas, the answer to this question is a matter of opinion. My choice is the "Archimedian Screw"...
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Euler's formula states that, for any real number x, eix = cos x + i sin x where e is the base of the natural logarithm, i is the...
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a lot like the water pump,firemirror,lever,screw1
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Abel's complete works have been digitized, and are available online through the National Library of Norway. Convenient links to...
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Archimedes Principal is the principal for buoyancy
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I know he had 2 brothers, Constantijn (Jr. or II) the oldest and Lodewijk the youngest, but im pretty sure he also had a little...
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René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician that lived from 1596 to 1650. He is considered the Father of Modern...
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Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher and mathematician who lived around 55 B.B. He discovered/created the Pythagorean theorem,...
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He lived in Syracuse, Sicily, a greek colony at the time.
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We are using lots of his inventions!to find out more research his inventions!
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It has been said that Bertrand Russell, a prominent 20th century philosopher (particularly for his work in analytic philosophy...
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Euclid the mathmatican is Greek. Born in 300BC
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There are an infinite number of possible answers.1*96, or 10*9.6 or 100*0.96 or 1000*0.096 etcor 2*48 or 20*4.8 or 200*0.48 etcor...
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No,because the inventor of ENIAC is John Presper Eckert Jr. and John Mauchly.
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Famous Mathematician of whole the world...He borned in 1887...He died in 1920...And he is also known as the founder of Indian...
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Assuming that you mean "Did Isaac Newton's parents divorce" or "Were Isaac Newton's parents divorced" or even "Where did Isaac...
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A Greek mathematician sometimes known as'the father of algebra'who is best known as his Arithmetica.
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Archimedes invented the Archimedes screw,catupult, the lever, the compound pulley,the fulcrum, and the burning mirror. he...
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you can get the pictures from sites like> www.images.google.com www.images.yahoo.com www.fathersofmathematics.com
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It was 1647 not 1847 and by Fermat himself.
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she wuz on meth
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Copernicus was an astronomer who stated that the sun was at the center of our solar system and that the planets rotated around...
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, : Euclid's lemma (Greek λῆμμα) is a generalization of Proposition 30 of Book VII of Euclid's Elements. The lemma...
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It was inadequate because he only classified things according to whether they lived on land, in the water, or in air. He also...
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Yes, there are black female mathematicians. Check related links
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She was born in Germany, but since she was Jewish, she had to flee when the Nazis took over. After that, she lived in the United...
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The most widely known anecdote about Archimedes tells of how he invented a method for determining the volume of an object with an...
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Family: Married Susan (maiden name unknown; divorced 1994); married Willow Bay (TV news anchor), 1995; children: four (first...
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The reason nobody knows his name is that he was wrong.The square roots of 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, ... etc. are...
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Archimedes was born in the city of Syracuse. This area is in modern day Sicily.
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Both. There was a man named Pythagoras and his followers were called the Pythagoreans. Yes, there was someone called...
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Among the most famous will be 1. Euler2. Gauss3. Newton4. Hilbert5. ArchimedesOf course there are many many more but just about...
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I'm not sure, but I do know all hell.
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cuz he was an astronomer
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Karl Friedrich Gauss
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Through his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2And what he means by that it is a way of energy
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He was revolutionary man, demolishing the geocentric theory (it was a struggle) and building the heliocentric theory. The...
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Leonardo Fibonacci discovered the Fibonacci sequence In the 12th century.
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Alan Turing died on June 7, 1954 at the age of 41.
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conversion of an stone age monkey to a well mannered and responsible citizen.......................
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Ok so basically the chebyshev's theorem states that 75% of your data will lie within 2 standard deviations of the mean and that...
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Archimedes lived from 287 BC to 212 BC. He was born in the Sicilian city of Syracuse. Syracuse is also the place where he died,...
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Francine Descartes died in the Netherlands in 1640. He was 5 years old when he died.
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It was invented in 1632.
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it was discovered in 1234
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Mr.Nicholas Copernicus was imprisoned for his theory of heliocentric system (sun in the middle of solar system). At that time...
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there is a crater on the moon named after him. <----- any more, any proof??
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It was initially though to be in 1792, but after his death, a nephew pointed out that Charles' baptism was at age 1 in 1792, so...
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1. Its volume does not change.2.Its shape does not change and would not take the shape of another container. 3.It has its own...
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His biological father died before he was born and his mother remarried when he was only 7 years old. He threatened his mother and...
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Pythagoras; Euclid; Isaac Newton; Gottfried Leibniz; Bernhard Riemann; Albert Einstein; Dr. Michio Kaku ... The answer to this...
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Born: c. 287 B.C. Birthplace: Syracuse, Sicily Died: c. 212 B.C. Best Known As: Ancient Greek mathematician who said "Eureka!"One...
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Place: a play should be set in only one location. Time: a play should only represent the happenings of one day; the events of...
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he wanted to be like Micheal Jackson
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The thirteenth and last book of the Elements of Euclid deals with the construction of the five "Platonic solids": the...
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Euclid, the Greek mathematician, also known as the Father of Geometry and Euclid of Alexandria, is best known for his 13 volumes...
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It's called 'Elements'
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In a word, geometry. He also influenced Plato, Aristotle, and many other philosophers and mathematicians long after his death. He...
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Towards the end of his life he fled to Metapontum because of a plot against him and his followers by a noble of Croton named...
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Blaise Pascal was a Catholic; specifically a convert to Jansenism (in 1646 as far as I know). Jansenism was a sect, like the...
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Because Pythagoras was the first person to prove the pythagorean theorem correct and his philosophy influence all other...
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Nicholas Copernicus was famous because he discovered that the earth was not in the center of the universe, but instead the sun...
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After many research I've come to think that Blaise Pascal was married to Antoinette Arnold. I had to figure this out for a school...
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From about 1510-1514 Copernicus developed his first general outline of his new heliocentric system.
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