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Greek Empire
- 600-400 BC
- Proof by deductive reasoning
- Pythagorean theorem |
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Greece
- Geometry and constructions
- incommensurables |
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Alexandria, Egypt
- Approx. of pi
- Quadratures of parabolas |
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Persia & Baghdad
- hindu-arabic numerals
- sines and cosines |
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Greek Early mathematicians?
Greek middle?
Greek late? |
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- Pythagoras, thales
- Euclid, Aristotle
- Diophantus, Hypatia |
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| Indian-Arabic mathematicians? |
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| Al-khowarizmi, Brahmagupta, and Bhaskura |
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Europe (Italy)
- Practical geometry
- Fibonnaci sequence
- Fibonacci, Cardano |
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Europe
- Analytical geometry
- Probability theory |
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| Descartes, Newton, Leibniz |
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Europe
- Pi was popularized
- Imaginary numbers came around
- Euler, Bernoulli |
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| 1800s (Age of Rigor in math) |
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Europe... again
- Fund. Them of Algeebra
- Trans-infinities
- Cantor, Riemann |
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| 1800s (Age of Rigor in math) |
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Europe... again
- Fund. Them of Algeebra
- Trans-infinities
- Cantor, Riemann |
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United States
- 23 propositions from Hilbert
- "The Proof" |
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United States
- 23 propositions from Hilbert
- "The Proof" |
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Created solution to depressed cubic
Solution to the general cubic
Quartic |
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Scipione del Ferro
Cardano
Ferrari |
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Fernat's Them.
Brachistochrone problem
Cycloid curve
Concluded e^ i*pi.
Fund. Thm. of algebra and arithmetic |
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Non-Euclidean geometries!
4-color theorem
Area under a catenary
Incompleteness theorem |
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Lobachevsky and Bolyai
Niels Abel
Pascal
Kurt Godel |
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Proof of FLT
Writer of Arithmetica
Wrote Ars Magna |
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Andrew Wiles
Diophantus
Cardano |
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One person:
Developed calc (first)
Principia Mathematica
"Standing on shoulders of giants"
Warden of the Mint
Proved Binomial Thm. |
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Wrote la geometrie
Algebrar
Probability theory |
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Descartes
Al-khowarizmi
Pascal & Fermat (letters back and forth) |
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| What curve was the solution to the brachistochrone problem? |
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One Person:
Using pi and e
"proof" that God exists
Analysis incarnate
Was blind for 17 years of life |
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No gen. solution to equations beyond quartic
Balance between working and the monastery
Beat Fior in the cubic wars |
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All infinities are not same size
Functional notation
23 Probs. of Century |
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Cantor
Fermat
David Hilbert |
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Died in a duel & created group theory
Told fortune for the Khalif
Stepreckoner |
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One Person:
3 dreams that changed life
I think, therefore I am
Slept, except for demands of queen
Equation of normal line to a tangent line |
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One Person:
Distribution and bell curve
constructed the 17-gon
"Prime of Mathematics"
Ceres |
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One Person:
Developed dy/dx notation
diplomat, philosopher, and mathm.
Symbolic and boolean logic |
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Pascaline and the vacuum
Negative numbers are 'in debt'
Means 'stammerer' |
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Pascal
Brahmahgupta
Tartaglia |
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Accused of plagarizing an early calc text
Sequence of rabbits & sent texts to Europe
Rigor in math |
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L'Hopital
Fibonacci
Weierstraus |
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Hypothesis named after him, and did dissertation on Non-E geometries.
Hungarian, father was a friend of Gauss
Trans-infinities
Won Nobel for game theory
Father of linear programming |
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Riemann
Bolyai
Cantor
John Nash
George Danzig |
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Math on a logical foundation, created famous paradox
Can't prove everything in math!
Proved binomial thm. |
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Bertrand Russell
Kurt Godel
Newton |
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