61. The French Mathematician - Tom Petsinis A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The french Mathematicianby Tom Petsinis. The french Mathematician by Tom Petsinis. http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/maths/petsint.htm

A Literary Saloon Site of Review. Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Contents: Main the Best the ... Links to e-mail us: the complete review - fiction The French Mathematician by Tom Petsinis general information review summaries our review links ... about the author Title: The French Mathematician Author: Tom Petsinis Genre: Novel Written: Length: 422 pages Availability: The French Mathematician - US The French Mathematician - UK The French Mathematician - Canada - Deutschland "This novel arose from an earlier project that was submitted for a Master of Arts degree titled A Fictional Biography of the French Mathematician Evariste Galois 1811-1832 ." - Return to top of the page - Our Assessment: B : decent novel, great material See our review for fuller assessment. Review Summaries Source Rating Date Reviewer Australian Book Review James Bradley - Return to top of the page - The complete review 's Review Tom Petsinis' novel has Galois tell his own story, a first person account of a wild, number-obsessed life that ended in tragedy. It begins cleverly enough, with chapter 0, where Galois sees himself "reduced to a singular point; in an instant I am transformed to

62. MathFiction The French Mathematician (Tom Petsinis) The french Mathematician (1998). Tom Petsinis. A fictionalized account(in first person) of the life and untimely death of Evariste http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf107

63. Biographies Blaise Pascal (1623–1662). Pascal was a french philosopher and mathematician andis considered one of the fathers of the mathematical theory of probability. http://www.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/vesta/Virtual_Labs/resources/resources3.html

Biographical Notes Bayes was a non-conformist minister in England. A version of what is now known as Bayes’ theorem was used in his paper "Essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances," published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in 1764. James Bernoulli was the first of the famous Bernoulli family of Swiss mathematicians. He wrote one of the early books devoted to probability, Ars Conjectandi , which was published after his death in 1713. Bernoulli formulated the version of the law of large numbers for independent trials, now called Bernoulli trials, and studied the binomial distribution. Buffon was the director of the Paris Jardin du Roi and was best known during his time for his thirty-six volume work on natural history. Buffon's famous coin and needle problems are considered to be among the first problems in geometric probability. Cardano, who lived in Italy, was a man of many interests: law, medicine, astrology, gambling, and mathematics. His book Liber de Ludo Aleae (The Book on Games of Chance), published after his death in 1663, contained perhaps the first mathematical analysis of gambling.

64. LookSmart - Directory - Francois Viete Listings About. Viete, Francois Thinkquest Read about the french mathematician sability to decipher Spanish codes and his solution to a 45th-degree equation. http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317914/us328800/us518756/us539572/

@import url(/css/us/style.css); @import url(/css/us/searchResult1.css); Home IN the directory this category YOU ARE HERE Home Sciences Mathematics Mathematicians Francois Viete - Find biographies about the man known as the "father of algebra," Francois Viete. Directory Listings About Viete, Francois - Thinkquest Read about the French mathematician's ability to decipher Spanish codes and his solution to a 45th-degree equation. allRefer Reference - Francois Viete or Vieta, 1540-1603 Provides details on works and achievements of the French mathematician. Viete, Francois - Catholic Encyclopedia Encyclopedia article calls Viete the "father of modern algebra" for his contributions of the algebraic symbols to mathematics. Viete, Francois - Galileo Project, Catalog Outlines the life and career of this French mathematician who did work in algebra, trigonometry, astronomy and cosmology. Viete, Francois - MacTutor History of Mathematics French mathematician worked as a code-breaker, calculated pi to nine places, and introduced systematic algebraic notation. Viete, Francois - Pi and More

65. Pierre De Fermat --  Encyclopædia Britannica french mathematician who is often called the founder of the modern theory of numbers. AndrewsBrief biography of this 17thcentury french mathematician. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=34654&tocid=0&query=pierre de fermat

66. Pierre De Fermat --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia , Fermat, Pierre de french mathematician who is often called the founderof the modern theory of numbers. Together with René Descartes http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?eu=296170

67. HighBeam Research: ELibrary Search: Results intermittent history. A century ago, the french mathematician Henri Poincarediscovered that there was no clean mathematical solution http://www.highbeam.com/library/search.asp?refid=bemorecreative&q=Henri Poincare

68. Fractal Geometry Some of the most remarkable fractals are the Julia sets, devised bythe french mathematician Gaston Julia (18931978). The Julia http://www.crystalinks.com/fractal.html

Fractal Geometry Reality is based on the patterns of sacred geometry which repeat in endless cycles. A fractal is a geometrical shape or pattern made up of identical parts, which are in turn identical to the overall pattern. The term "fractal" was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot about 1975 to describe a complex geometrical object that has a high degree of "self-similarity" and a fractional dimension that exceeds the normal, or "topological", dimension ( "D" ) for that type of object. The basic unit of the Koch snowflake , first constructed by the mathematician Helge von Koch (1870-1924), is the equilatorial triangle which can be built up into a much larger but still similar pattern. Any part of the snowflake is equally crinkly, whatever scale it is viewed at. Some of the most remarkable fractals are the Julia sets, devised by the French mathematician Gaston Julia (1893-1978). The Julia Sets are generated by applying an iterative non-linear process based on a very simple square-law function. F(z,C) = z2 + C where z is a point on the X-Y plane and C is a constant with both x and y components, Cx and Cy. The results were very surprising. No one expected that such a simple function could produce such complex images and be so difficult to analyze.

69. Zeal.com - United States - New - Library - Sciences - Mathematics - Mathematicia library.thinkquest.org/22584/temh3027.htm Read about the french mathematician sability to decipher Spanish codes and his solution to a 45thdegree equation. http://zeal.com/category/preview.jhtml?cid=539572

70. Zeal.com - United States - New - Library - Sciences - Mathematics - Mathematicia Joseph http//reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/F/FourierJ.html Discover detailson the achievements and works of the french mathematician and physicist. http://zeal.com/category/preview.jhtml?cid=558054

71. MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Calculus (mathematics) all over Europe. At about the same time, the french mathematician RenéDescartes’La Géométrie appeared. In this important work http://encarta.msn.com/text_761568582___5/Calculus_(mathematics).html

Print Preview Calculus (mathematics) Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. Calculus (mathematics) V. Development of Calculus The English and German mathematicians, respectively, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invented calculus in the 17th century, but isolated results about its fundamental problems had been known for thousands of years. For example, the Egyptians discovered the rule for the volume of a pyramid as well as an approximation of the area of a circle. In ancient Greece, Archimedes proved that if c is the circumference and d the diameter of a circle, then 3 d c d . His proof extended the method of inscribed and circumscribed figures developed by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Eudoxus. Archimedes used the same technique for his other results on areas and volumes. Archimedes discovered his results by means of heuristic arguments involving parallel slices of the figures and the law of the lever. Unfortunately, his treatise The Method was only rediscovered in the 19th century, so later mathematicians believed that the Greeks deliberately concealed their secret methods. During the late middle ages in Europe, mathematicians studied translations of Archimedes’ treatises from Arabic. At the same time, philosophers were studying problems of change and the infinite, such as the addition of infinitely many quantities. Greek thinkers had seen only contradictions there, but medieval thinkers aided mathematics by making the infinite philosophically respectable.

72. MSN Encarta - Sound Calculus provided a powerful new tool to scientists in many fields, and mathematicianssuch as the french Jean le Rond d Alembert and Joseph Louis Lagrange http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761560639_2/Sound.html

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money Web Search: logoImg('http://sc.msn.com'); Encarta Subscriber Sign In Help Home ... Upgrade to Encarta Premium Search Encarta Tasks Find in this article Print Preview Send us feedback Related Items Acoustics Decibel more... Magazines Search the Encarta Magazine Center for magazine and news articles about this topic Further Reading Editors' Picks Sound News Search MSNBC for news about Sound Internet Search Search Encarta about Sound Search MSN for Web sites about Sound Also on Encarta Editor's picks: Good books about Iraq Compare top online degrees What's so funny? The history of humor Also on MSN Summer shopping: From grills to home decor D-Day remembered on Discovery Switch to MSN in 3 easy steps Our Partners Capella University: Online degrees LearnitToday: Computer courses CollegeBound Network: ReadySetGo Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions Encyclopedia Article from Encarta Advertisement Page 2 of 2 Sound Multimedia 4 items Article Outline Introduction Physical Characteristics Sensations of Tone Historical Development A Three Important Types of Ordinary Sound In speech, music, and noise, pure tones are seldom heard. A musical note contains, in addition to a fundamental frequency, higher tones that are harmonics of the fundamental frequency. Speech contains a complex mixture of sounds, some (but not all) of which are in harmonic relation to one another. Noise consists of a mixture of many different frequencies within a certain range; it is thus comparable to white light, which consists of a mixture of light of all different colors. Different noises are distinguished by different distributions of energy in the various frequency ranges.

73. Junk Pascal, Blaise (16231662) french mathematician, physicist, theologian;Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895) french chemist, bacteriologist; http://www.creativequotations.com/p-scien.htm

CQ Home Search Indexes E-books ... creative Scientists, Inventors, Explorers, Aviators, Astronauts, Ecologists, Conversationalists, Mathematicians, Architects, Anthropologists . . . Armstrong, Neil US astronaut Asimov, Isaac US science writer, science-fiction writer Baudrillard, Jean French sociologist Bell, Alexander Graham Scottish-USA, Canadian inventor Bell, Eric Temple Scottish-USA mathematician, educator, writer Benedict, Ruth US anthropologist Bernstein, Jeremy US physicist, educator, writer Bohr, Niels Danish physicist Born, Max German-British physicist, educator Brahe, Tycho Danish astronomer Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc de French naturalist Burbank, Luther US naturalist, plant breeder Burroughs, John US author, naturalist Bush, Vannevar US electrical engineer, government official Carrel, Alexis US surgeon, biologist Carson, Rachel US biologist, writer Carver, George Washington US chemist, educator Castaneda, Carlos US anthropologist, writer Clarke, Arthur C. English science writer, science-fiction writer Columbus, Christopher Italian explorer Commoner, Barry

74. Mathematical Art Of M.C. Escher -- Platonic Realms MiniText This is one of the two kinds of nonEuclidean space, and the model representedin Escher s work is actually due to the french mathematician Poincaré. http://www.mathacademy.com/pr/minitext/escher/index.asp

INTRODUCTION TESSELLATIONS POLYHEDRA THE SHAPE OF SPACE ... SELF-REFERENCE For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art. Click on any Escher thumbnail image to view the larger version. Valued Sponsors www.mcescher.com You can make your own models of the regular polyhedra, using Platonic Solids Model Paper available in Downloadables Click on any Escher thumbnail image to view the larger version. Valued Sponsors www.mcescher.com You can make your own models of the regular polyhedra, using Platonic Solids Model Paper available in Downloadables Click on any Escher thumbnail image to view the larger version. Valued Sponsors www.mcescher.com You can make your own models of the regular polyhedra, using Platonic Solids Model Paper available in Downloadables INTRODUCTION Self Portrait (36k) aurits Cornelis Escher, who was born in Leeuwarden, Holland in 1898, created unique and fascinating works of art that explore and exhibit a wide range of mathematical ideas. logic of space.

75. Times Obituary He joined the Bourbakists , a group dedicated to modernising french mathematicsby of Schwartz s companions in this group was another mathematical prodigy and http://www.aam314.vzz.net/Schwartz.html

Laurent Schwartz Mathematician who put the quantum physicists straight, but could not quite manage the same trick with politicians Laurent Schwartz, mathematician, was born on March 5, 1915. He died on July 4, 2002, aged 87. "To discover something in mathematics is to overcome an inhibition and a tradition. You cannot move forward if you are not subversive." Both the public life and the research of the French mathematician Laurent Schwartz eloquently bear out these much-quoted words from his 1997 book of memoirs, Un mathematicien aux prises avec le siecle. The first French winner of the Fields Medal, his discipline's equivalent of a Nobel Prize, he also made numerous interventions in his country's civic and political life, never fearing to upset the powers that-be in his responses to France's war in Algeria or in his views on education. Schwartz was one of the 20th century's greatest exponents of mathematical analysis, the part of pure mathematics dealing with limiting operations such as the calculus and its ramifications. His most important contribution was his theory of "distributions" or "generalised functions" (as they are often called in English), the story of which is a classic case of the interplay between applications and theory, and between physics and mathematics. In his classic book The Principles of Quantum Mechanics (1930), the great British physicist Paul Dirac (1902-84), one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, used his formalism of so-called "delta functions". As Dirac himself knew, in mathematical terms these made no sense at all -but they worked. The challenge of creating a mathematical theory that would tame Dirac's delta functions by bringing them within the scope of rigorous mathematics tantalised both mathematicians and physicists until it was resolved by Schwartz in a series of papers beginning in 1945.

76. ThinkQuest : Library : Maths Universe mechanical calculating machine. AD 1637, french mathematician and philosopherReneDescartes introduced coordinate geometry. AD 1654, In http://library.thinkquest.org/C007273/mathcronos.html

Index Math Algebra Maths Universe Visit Site 2000 ThinkQuest Internet Challenge Languages English Students Yanjie Anderson Secondary School, Singapore, Singapore Ivan Steve Facultad de Ingenierma (UAEM), Metepec, Mexico Eneas Adan Instituto Tecnolsgico de Toluca, Metepec, Mexico Coaches Lai Fong Anderson Secondary School, Singapore, Singapore Want to build a ThinkQuest site? The ThinkQuest site above is one of thousands of educational web sites built by students from around the world. Click here to learn how you can build a ThinkQuest site. Privacy Policy

77. Mathematical Analysis - Encyclopedia Article About Mathematical Analysis. Free A Cauchy Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 May 23,1857) was a french mathematician. Theyare named after the french mathematician Augustin Louis Cauchy. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Mathematical analysis

Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Mathematical analysis Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition Analysis is that branch of mathematics Mathematics is commonly defined as the study of patterns of structure, change, and space; more informally, one might say it is the study of 'figures and numbers'. In the formalist view, it is the investigation of axiomatically defined abstract structures using logic and mathematical notation; other views are described in Philosophy of mathematics. Mathematics might be seen as a simple extension of spoken and written languages, with an extremely precisely defined vocabulary and grammar, for the purpose of describing and exploring physical and conceptual relationships. Click the link for more information. which deals with the real numbers In mathematics, the real numbers Real numbers may be rational or irrational; algebraic or transcendental; and positive, negative, or zero. Real numbers measure continuous quantities. They may in theory be expressed by decimal fractions that have an infinite sequence of digits to the right of the decimal point; these are often (mis-)represented in the same form as 324.823211247... (where the three dots express that there would still be more digits to come, no matter how many more might be added at the end). Click the link for more information.

78. Law Of Quadratic Reciprocity - Encyclopedia Article About Law Of Quadratic Recip AdrienMarie Legendre (September 18 1752 - January 10 1833) was a french mathematician. Itis named after the french mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Law of quadratic reciprocity

Dictionaries: General Computing Medical Legal Encyclopedia Law of quadratic reciprocity Word: Word Starts with Ends with Definition The law of quadratic reciprocity , conjectured by Euler Leonhard Euler (April 15, 1707 - September 18, 1783) (pronounced "oiler", not "yooler") was a Swiss mathematician and physicist. Leonhard Euler used the term "function" (first defined by Leibniz - 1694) to describe an expression involving various arguments; ie: y = F( x ). Euler is credited with being one of the first to apply calculus to physics. Born and educated in Switzerland, Click the link for more information. and Legendre Adrien-Marie Legendre (September 18 1752 - January 10 1833) was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis. Most of his work was brought to perfection by others: his work on roots of polynomials inspired Galois theory; Abel's work on elliptic functions was built on Legendre's; some of Gauss' work in statistics and number theory completed that of Legendre. Click the link for more information.

79. TRIVIA GAME 7. This 19th century french mathematician did very innovative workwith equations and quadratic forms. He correspondended at length http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/academics/MS/PiDay/trivia.htm

3.14 TRIVIA GAME 1. This remarkable Swiss mathematician and teacher was responsible for instituting the use of the symbol for pi in mathematical notation. 2. The Islamic scientist/mathematician AL-Khowarizmi is credited with coining the word. His book, written in 825 AD, demonstrated how to solve equations and became widely popular throughout the world. 3. This 17th century English mathematician wrote two famous books on mathematics: The Artihmetica and The Algebra. He invented the term interpolation and created a celebrated formula for determining the value of pi. 4. numerals are the most common system of number notation used in today’s world. 5. What extraordinary Indian mathematician created a formula to rapidly calculate the value of pi? He was fascinated with infinity. 6. What popular graphical artist uses mathematical principles such as mobius strips, knots,optical illusions and transformations in his work? 7. This 19th century French mathematician did very innovative work with equations and quadratic forms. He correspondended at length with other mathematicians and often contributed to their work. His work with transcendental numbers was the foundation for later proof of the transcendence of pi.

80. 10.9. Euler, Leonard (1707-1783) One day in the court, the french philosopher, who had no mathematical knowledge,was informed that someone had a mathematical proof of the existence of God. http://www.shu.edu/projects/reals/history/euler.html

10.9. Euler, Leonard (1707-1783) IRA Leonhard Euler was one of top mathematicians of the eighteenth century and the greatest mathematician to come out of Switzerland. He made numerous contributions to almost every mathematics field and was the most prolific mathematics writer of all time. It was said that "Euler calculated without apparent effort, as men breathe...." He was dubbed "Analysis Incarnate" by his peers for his incredible ability. Leonhard Euler was born in Basel, Switzerland, on April 15, 1707. His father, a Calvinist pastor and former mathematician, planned the life of a clergyman for his son and originally Leonhard followed that path. He graduated from the University of Basel in 1724 where he studied theology and Hebrew. During his time at the school, however, he was privately tutored in mathematics by Johann Bernoulli. Johann was so impressed by his pupil's ability that he convinced Euler's father to allow Leonhard to become a mathematician. Euler took up a position at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1727 and became the professor of mathematics six years later. During his stay, he was married and would over his lifetime have thirteen children, five of which would survive to adulthood. While in Russia, he lost sight in one eye after working day and night for three days to solve a problem. The question, which was a public contest, took all the other mathematicians involved months to figure out. He also discovered that the Czar's government was far from democratic as he was followed by secret police. He looked for a way out.

Page 4     61-80 of 102    Back | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | Next 20