When John Napier invented the first logarithm, it was for pure mathematical and astronomical purpose. He used line segments to come up with logarithms; one line segment increased arithmetically, and the other decreased geometrically. Only with the help of other mathematicians did the common logarithm become multi-applicable to a large variety of purposes. The men responsible for collaborating with Napier’s work were not all alive during his period of life. Many
State the place value of the underlined digit in 6 953 742. A Hundreds C Ten thousands B Thousands D Hundred thousands ( 3. Round off 5 987 341 to the nearest hundred thousand. A 5.8 million C 6.0 million ( B 5.9 million D 6.1 million 4. Which of the following numbers, when rounded off to the nearest thousand, becomes 7 541 000?
<BR> <br>Pappus was born in approximately 920 in Alexandria, Egypt. He was the last of the great Greek geometers and one of his major theorems is considered to be the basis of modern projective geometry ("Pappus"). Pappus flourished in the fourth century, writing his key work, the Mathematical Collection, as a guide to Greek geometry ("Biography"). In this work, Pappus discusses theorems and constructions of over thirty mathematicians including Euclid, Archimedes and Ptolemy ("Biography"), providing alternatives of proofs and generalizing theorems. <br>The Collection is a handbook to all of Greek geometry and is now almost the sole source of history of that science (Thomas 564).
At 11 he began writing, a talent that would grow into a hobby and eventually a career. Isaac Asimov’s parents raised him in the religion of Judaism; however upon adulthood he became atheist. While in the military Asimov received the lowest score on the conditioning test, but he scored the highest on the IQ exam (“Asimov Online Facts” 1). In 1947 Asimov married Gertrude Blugerman. The couple had two kids.
Pentium Flaw Intel was founded in July 1968 by American engineers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Their Pentium microprocessor was first introduced in 1993. The Pentium was the first Intel chip for PC’s to use parallel processing, which significantly increased its speed. It had 3.1 million transistors on one chip, compared to its predecessor the 80486 with 1.2 million transistors per chip. In 1994 the public began to notice a flaw.
The city called Konigsberg was changed in 1946, to Kaliningrad. This city was intertwined with a famous historical math problem that involved Leonhard Paul Euler. Euler believed that there was a path that was able to be walked across seven bridges just one time between the islands that were connected by these bridges. This mathematical problem later led to mathematical branches of topology and graph theory. Leonhard Paul Euler was born on April 15, 1707, he was known as a great mathematician and a physicist.
In fact, Redford says that “The Egyptians began using the pyramid from shortly after 2700 BC, and the great heyday of constructing them for royalty extended for about a thousand years, until 1700 BC” (qtd. in “How”). Without the Egyptians’ solar religion, the building of the pyramids might have been quite different. Of course, math played a very important role in building the pyramids. One important mathematical concept that was crucial in the building of the pyramids is, in fact, one that we study today.
4 c. 1 d. 4 2. a. 5 b. 3 c. 4 d. 7 3. 2.63 x 10-6 4. a. 5 x 106 b.
“From one side of the nation to the other, we collaborated on ideas and methods to incorporate math into a hands-on program like welding,” said Welding Department Chair Bill Wenzel, who developed the program with Math Department Chair Katie Lucero. "So instead of a student sitting in a math class going through the applications of algebra, calculus or trigonometry, they’re now sitting in class where they’re using a hands-on project and realizing, ‘Why, I need to know how to do adding, subtracting and fractions to use a tape measure, and how I can use algebra to solve an equation that I need to use now to do this project.’” This is the second year for the program, in which students in two welding classes spend part of their time in the classroom, working on fundamental math skills such as multiplying and dividing fractions, and then take those skills into the workshop, where they apply them to welding projects. Welding Technology 10 students each make a hibachi grill, welding the components they’ve measured using math basics. They use fractions to determine how many lengths of a measurement could be cut from one rod, and calculate how much material is needed for the grill. They also go through
Though it was written 500 years after the war supposedly occurred, historians still use the Iliad as a source to which they base their findings on due to it being the one of the only and most substantial record of the war found. There are tablets and small artefacts that mention small aspects of the war, such as the wealth of the Mycenae people which Schliemann claimed he found evidence of in a Mycenae tomb containing gold and that Homer’s Iliad supported. Most historians believe that Homer’s Iliad cannot be used as historical evidence of the Trojan War as the language and style it was written in