When I think of mathematicians, I think of men and women working contentedly throughout the night, leaving their families, dedicating their entire lives to solving the complex equations and fundamentals of math itself. Now, when I think of Maria Agnesi, I think of someone completely different. M...

Abstract College students all stress out about one situation/life generality or another. Some of these situations/life generalities are individuation, computer anxiety, ethnic and gender roles in student-athletes, and mathematics anxiety. Introduction There have been many studies looking at stre...

Name Instructor Course Date Logic and George Boole The meaning of logic is likely one of the most philosophical ideas on which to write about. Logic and creativity are opposite ideas. Logic represents the prime value of creativity. Logic is the inverse of creativity. I have discovered that creat...

The first mathematics can be traced to the ancient country of Babylon and to Egypt during the 3rd millennium BC. A number system with a base of 60 had developed in Babylon over time. Large numbers and fractions could be represented and formed the basis of advanced mathematical evolution. From at lea...

When the name Pythagoras is mentioned, most people (who have taken a geometry or another higher mathematics course) automatically think ¡§the Pythagorean Theorem¡. But what many people do not know is that Pythagoras contributed a lot more than just ¡§a theorem¡ to the world of mathema...

The Elements of Euclid It is a tragedy of mathematics that what we know of Euclid¡s life is so meager. It is because of Euclid¡s work that mathematics was able progress so rapidly in classical times. Euclid¡s masterpiece The Elements was so popular that it became the most widely read book un...

In Hume's A Treatise Of Human Nature he makes a distinction between passions and reason. He Points out that reason is a slave to the passions. Reason is what directs our judgment, concerning causes and effects (p.461). These causes and effects are what directs our reason. There are some who ...

Charles Baxter is the author of a short story named "Gryphon". It is a story of an unusual substitute teacher named Miss Ferenczi. She taught a 4th grade class in Five Oaks, Michigan, a total of three times David Auburn is the author of the play "Proof". It is about a 25 ye...

Early History The history of Algebra begins in Egypt, Babylon, and India. Although it was in these areas that the roots of Algebra began, the message and teachings of it would eventually spread throughout the world. The Arabs first practiced this mathematical form, and they are given credit for ...

Ammar: Hi Mr. Euclid.Euclid: HelloAmmar: How are you Sir?Euclid: I am fine thank you.Euclid: How may I help you.Ammar: I want an interview of you Sir for my history teacher. May I get it?Euclid: Yes, sure, why not. So what do you want to ask me?Ammar: If you won't mind, can I ask some personal quest...

1.)A Paradigm Shift in the end, it is the definition of an educated person that has to change. The de facto objectives of the system today are to pour knowledge into the child. The more knowledge the child accumulates, the more successful they are within the system. Education remains linear in a dec...

If getting an A or B over the year is deemed successful than I was successful in this class. But I also feel successful in that I received an A on almost ever test and I feel pretty good about the A.P. exam, even though whenever I feel good about something, it always turns bad. I also feel...