Simon Stevin was an influential mathematician and engineer with a broad range of interests. He offered new insights and discoveries in the development of decimal numbers and the laws of inclines, gravity, hydrostatics, and fortification. Although Stevin never earned the same lasting reputation as Galileo or Isaac Newton, his contributions to the advancement of mathematical theory are noteworthy. Stevin began publishing his writings on mathematics while still a student. In 1582 he employed a printing shop in Antwerp to produce Tables of Interest, which outlined the rules for computing interest and provided tables for understanding discounts and annuities.
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."
Washburn was fortunate to be tutored by to great structuralist figures in psychology such as Cattell and Titchener. Washburn received many awards and honors, most recognizable being her nomination as president of the American Psychological Association in 1921. Ironically, she was placed on Cattell’s list of the “1000 most important men in science” and received many gifts and rewards from her colleagues and students. Washburn made important contributions to the field of psychology with publication of The Animal Mind, the only comparative psychology textbook used in classrooms for several decades, as well as her attempts to join different schools of thought in psychology. Margaret Floy Washburn was born in New York City, New York on July 25, 1871.
Other examples that they recorded included $13^2=5^2+12^2$ and even $8161^2=4961^2+6480^2$. One of the great intellectual masterpieces of the ancient Greek world was Diophantus' {\sl Arithmetic}. This work, available in Latin translation in the seveteenth century, was an important inspiration for the scientific renaissance of that period, read by Fermat, Descartes, Newton and others. Fermat, a jurist from Toulouse, studied mathematics as a hobby. He didn't formally publish his work but rather disseminated his ideas in letters, challenging
He also collaborated with his brother, Ken Burns, on the critically acclaimed series The Civil War. Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian as well as the first woman president of Harvard University. Her book "This Republic of Suffering" earned her acclaim as a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. At the beginning of the Civil War many believed that the war would quickly be over with relatively little loss of life.
Whatever the reason, parents need to start focusing on their daughters’ involvement in advanced science and math classes. To connect with the audience, Jacoby introduces Susannah, a 16-year-old straight A high school student, and her parents (282). Susannah decides to drop her math and science courses from her high school schedule because she plans to major in art or history. Susannah’s parents do not mind their daughter dropping two of the most important subjects in school
John Pierpont Morgan, more commonly known as J.P. Morgan, is widely known for being a philanthropist, financier, and the most powerful American banker in the early 1900s. J.P. Morgan was born on April 17, 1837 in the northeast of the U.S. in Hartford, Connecticut to father, Junius Spencer Morgan and mother, Juliet Pierpont Morgan, both a very prestigious upper class family. They were also a religious family that was a part of the Episcopalian Church. The Episcopal Church is an Anglican Christian church that describes themselves as “Protestant, yet Catholic.” J.P. Morgan learned religious practices from his father, which influenced him greatly, and would later teach his children to become Episcopalian. J.P. Morgan’s father, Junius Spencer
He studied philosophy and history in the University of Berlin and graduated on Kant in 1881 with a dissertation. In 1885, he became a “Privatadozent” and married in 1890. After fifteen years of teaching, he was offered the title of ausserordentlicher Professor and was appointed to the ordentliche Professor who have full academic privileges, at the University of Strassbourg. Simmel was an excellent lecturer so he attracted lots of students (Frisby, 1981) He wrote numerous articles and books such as “The metropolis and Mental Life” and “The philosophy of Money”. He became famous in academic circles in Germany and even caused a great impact on the United
Even with her extensive work in both areas, she is best known to the general public as the first woman to be grated a PhD in psychology in 1894. Washburn was also the second woman after Mary Whiton Calkins, to be the president of the American Psychological Association in 1921. (American Psychologist, 1970) Washburn was born in New York City in 1871. Her father Francis, an Episcopal priest and her mother, Elizabeth Floy, who was from a very wealthy family, raised her into adulthood. When Margaret was 9 she moved to Ulster County, New York after her father was placed in a parish there.
In 1870 he entered in the physics and mathematics faculty to take the course in natural science. Pavlov became passionately absorbed with physiology, which in fact was to remain of such most importance to him in his life. It was during this first course that he produced, in collaboration with another student, Afanasyev, his first learned treatise, a work on the physiology of the pancreatic nerves. This work was acclaimed and he was rewarded a gold medal for it. His biggest work to the world of psychology is classical conditioning, a theory about how behavior is learned.