Algebra 2 Algebra 2 Pascal Investigation (5.7) 1. Who was Blaise Pascal (history)? Blaise Pascal, famous mathematician, was born in 1623 on June 19th, at Clermont. His father moved the family to Paris in the year 1631 to conduct his own scientific investigation as well as to pass on his knowledge to him only son. At first, young Pascal’s education did involve mathematics, only the study of languages. Pascal decided to learn about geometry, a topic he had only heard of but never studied, in his spare time.
He sustained beatings, loss of belongings, and loss of lunch money as a result. Sheldon attended elementary school until the age of 11, grade five, at that point he entered college. He graduated college summa cum laude at the age of 14 and at the time was the youngest person to receive the Stevenson Award at 14 1/2 years old. He received his first doctorate at the age of 16 and completed his second dissertation at the age of 20. Sheldon is currently a senior theoretical particle physicist at the California Institute of Technology focusing on string theory and its alter ego M-theory.
Pascal died in Paris on August 19, 1662 Inventor, mathematician, physicist and theological writer Blaise Pascal, born on June 19, 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, was the third child and only son to Etienne and Antoinette Pascal. His mother, Antoinette, passed away when he was just a toddler. He was exceptionally close to his two older sisters, Gilberte and Jacqueline. His father, Etienne, was a tax collector and a talented mathematician. Etienne moved the family to Paris in 1631.
EARLY SCIENTIFIC CAREER After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, Cohn went on to receive his Ph.D. from the university in 1917. He chose to focus his scientific work on the study of proteins. With the entry of the United States into World War I, Cohn studied the proteins in bread, hoping to discover a way to cope with wartime wheat shortages. Cohn moved to Harvard Medical School in 1920. There he worked on a liver extract that successfully treated pernicious anemia, though he was unable to isolate the active agent.
Then, Rillieux father send him to Paris best school (L'Ecole) were there were no racial restrictions, to study engineering. On Paris in L'Ecole the school he was attending he turned out to be a brilliant student, he showed an extraordinary skill on engineering, making his dad really proud. At the age of twenty-four he became a instructor of applied mechanics on the same school he studied in, also making him the youngest teacher there. Then in 1830 he published a series of papers on steam-engine work and steam economy that created favorable attention in scientific circle all over Europe. He also developed the theory of
Charles L. Reason Algebra II Trig Charles L. Reason was born July 21, 1818 in New York City to West Indies immigrants Michael and Elizabeth Reason. Charles attended the African Free School along with his brothers Elmer and Patrick both who are important historical figures in their own right. An excellent student in mathematics, Reason became an instructor in 1832 at the school at age fourteen this became a striking matter for the news, receiving a salary of $25 a year. He used some of his earnings to hire tutors to improve his knowledge. Later, he decided to enter the ministry but was rejected because of his race by the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City.
He was able to enter Westminster School at the age of thirteen, and from there went to Oxford, where some of the best scientists in England were working at the time. Hooke impressed them with his skills at designing experiments and building equipment, and soon became an assistant to the chemist Robert Boyle. In 1662 Hooke was named Curator of Experiments of the newly formed Royal Society of London -- meaning that he was responsible for demonstrating new experiments at the Society's weekly meetings. He later became Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, where he had a set of rooms and where he lived for the rest of his life. His health deteriorated over the last decade of his life, although one of his biographers wrote that "He was of an active, restless, indefatigable Genius even almost to the last."
Nash was born in Bluefield on 23rd June 1928, from young; Nash can be seen as a unique child. He never participate in sports and social activities, he viewed those as a waste of time, and his favorite past time to carry out scientific experiments in his room. He is educated in the Bluefield College and later the Carnegie Mellon University, which is where he found his interest in mathematics. Following that, he went to Princeton to obtain his doctorate in mathematics in 1950. In his teaching years in MIT, he met Alicia López-Harrison de Lardé, the couple married in February 1957.
Maxwell began his undergraduate studies at Edinburgh University at age sixteen and entered graduate school at Cambridge University at age nineteen. After graduation, he was a fellow and professor at a variety of colleges in the United Kingdom. Maxwell was inducted as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh when he was 25, and promoted to a Fellow of The Royal Society at age 30. After a fruitful career, James Maxwell passed away at the age of 48 of stomach cancer, which was oddly the same cause and timing of his mother’s death when Maxwell was eight years old (Forfar, 1995). Before we start talking about Maxwell’s Equations, let’s look back into history.
Léon Walras (16 December 1834 - 5 January 1910) Biography Marie-Ésprit Léon Walras was born in Évreux, France (near Montreux, Switzerland) on December 16th, 1834. Walras was the son of the French proto-marginalist, economist and schoolteacher, Antonie-Auguste Walras, who encouraged his son to pursue economics with a particular emphasis on mathematics. Walras enrolled in the Paris School of Mine but grew tired of engineering. He spent most of his early life in Paris as a novelist and art critic (had quite a Bohemian youth). He also tried careers as a bank manager, journalist, romantic novelist and a clerk at a railway company, administrator of cooperative bank before turning to economics .In that scientific discipline Walras claimed to have found “pleasures and joys like those that religion provides to the faithful.” In 1858, one evening while the two were out walking, his father situated the postulate in Léon that to create a scientific theory of economics one would need to use differential calculus to derive a ‘science of economic forces, analogous to the science of astronomical forces’.