Mi’esha Straughn
02 December 2015
4th period
John Napier Essay
The History of John Napier John Napier was a Scottish mathematician that lived from 1550 to 1617.John Napier was the first major contributor to science form the British Isles. He is also known as a physicist and an astronomer. John Napier was even the eighth Laird of Merchiston. He is also best known for discovering logarithms, which paved the way for astronomy, physics, and even astrology.
John Napier was very famous. He lived around 1550 to 1617. He was from the United Kingdom. John Napier was born around 1550. Even though he was born into great nobility and known to be very smart, he started his studies when he was thirteen. Although very little is known about where and when he studied, some people believed he studied at the University of St. Andrews. His father was Sir Archibald Napier. Archibald was a Scottish land owner and a master of the Scottish mint. He was married twice. Once to an unknown woman, by which he had ten children. He
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Napier's bones, also called Napier's rods, are numbered rods which can be used to perform multiplication of any number by a number 2-9. By placing "bones" corresponding to the multiplier on the left side and the bones corresponding to the digits of the multiplicand next to it to the right, and product can be read off simply by adding pairs of numbers (with appropriate carries as needed) in the row determined by the multiplier. This process was published by Napier in 1617 in a book titled Rabdologia, so the process is also called rabdology (Weisstein). Napier was also responsible for advancing the notion of the decimal fraction by introducing the use of the decimal point. His suggestion that a simple point could be used to separate whole number and fractional parts of a number soon became accepted practice throughout Great Britain
Peter Salem : a slave who was freed by his owner, Jeremiah Belknap, to join the Framingham militia in Massachusetts. He was a patriot for over seven years, supporting the Americans fight the British, and became a militia himself and served for four years and eight months. In 1775, Peter took part in fighting the war’s first battle at Concord. He enrolled in Captain Drury’s Company of John Nixon’s 6th Massachusetts Regiment. He also took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he mortally wounded British Marine Major, John Pitcairn. Then in 1776, he reenlisted for another year in the 4th Continental Regiment. After his enlistment was over, he volunteer for three years in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment of Colonel Thomas Nixon. Achievement : Contribute to Concord battle(1775), Battle of the Bunker Hill(1775), and the Battles of Saratoga and Stony Point(1777).
William Clark was ½ of the genius team that made their way through miles of unknown land, unknown nature, unknown natives, and came home with all but one voyager, who was killed of natural causes. William Clark and Meriwether Lewis were the first Americans to try and map the Louisiana Purchase area, and not only did they map it, they discovered allies, new plants and animals, and discovered new land and water routes that could be useful for future travelers.
In 1979 a man named Joe Montana was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. In just two seasons he led the 49ers to their first ever super bowl, and on January 24, 1982, the legend of “Joe Cool” was born. For many years Joe was seen as the greatest QB of all time. He would go on to win three more championships and 3 Super Bowl MVPs while completing many late-game comebacks. He was looked up to many people including a tall, skinny, unathletic kid from San Mateo, California who would grow up to surpass his idol as the greatest QB of all time.
The surgery that every pitcher has a nightmare of having is Tommy John. Tommy John surgery is one of the biggest surgeries in the sport of baseball. The most common players to have this surgery are pitchers. This surgery has made many players become more mentally and physically tougher and realize that you will never know when the last time you might be able to throw a ball. The first Tommy John Surgery happened in 1974 by an orthopedic surgeon Dr. Frank Jobe. Just this past season in 2014 there were 29 pitchers that had Tommy John Surgery (Tommy John surgery Wikipedia). Tommy John surgery is a renowned procedure that Dr. Jobe introduced to the health care professionals to reconstruct your ulnar collateral tendon
“Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle,” (John 19:17-18). Jesus Christ’s valiant life was terminated with a horrendous execution. Tom Robinson’s did as well. He lived his life in the name in the name of others, helping everyone that he could, going out of his way to save people, even Judas, who would betray him. Tom did this aswell, constantly assisting Mayella, she who would betray him in court. Jesus had followers who believed in his message, just as Tom had believers in his innocence. Jesus and his followers would face persecution, just as Tom and hisi believers would. The judgements and death sentences of Jesus and Tom would make them become martyrs. The Martyrdoms would be essential for their causes. Many aspects of Tom Robinson’s life and death
Tommy John surgery is a surgery common in the MLB for pitchers who have hurt their arm. Injury to the UCL occur when a player, commonly pitchers, throw a baseball repeatedly. Unfortunately, Baseball is a repetitive game especially for pitchers. When a pitcher gains muscles that help him throw harder, the ligaments and tendons are often left out. Pitching presses the body to its limits and with all the stress eventually, the tendons and ligaments will not be able to take it. Properly known as ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction (or UCL), is a surgical operation in which a ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body, often the forearm or hamstring of the patient. Since the first patient, with the name
Some historical figures have lived and died without their efforts and wishes for a better future for the Mexican-American community recognized. Fortunately, this was not the case for Jo Cox, who advocates for the Mexican-American community to this day. With her headstrong attitude and a tendency to stand her ground, Josefina Rodriguez Marques Cox is seen as a highly respected individual in the Hispanic community from the 20th century not only in San Antonio but across the United States.
John Jay was born in New York City on December 12, 1745. John’s parents were Peter Jay and Mary Anna Van Courtland. His maternal family was of solid Dutch American background. They were the Van Cortlandts. Jay’s grandfather was Jacobus Van Cortlandt that served New York City twice as its mayor. Jay attended King’s College, which after independence became Columbia College and eventually Columbia University. As college graduation getting closer, he clerked as a law clerk, passed the New York Bar exam, and began practicing law in 1768. As a young lawyer in New York in 1768, John was very much in demand to serve his country. He graduated from King's College in 1764.
“The chief of police got my brother killed. He don’t care. He shows no emotion at all.” – Stevante Clark. On the evening of March 18th 2018 in Sacramento, California, a 22 year-old unarmed African American man Stephon Clark, who was a loving father of two sons was shot and killed in his own backyard by two Sacramento Police officers, one black and one white. Which reignited the national debate on race and policing in the United States.
Smith was particularly close to his mother, and it was likely she who encouraged him to pursue his scholarly ambitions. Smith attended the Burgh School of Kirkcaldy from 1729 to 1737, and there studied Latin, mathematics, history, and writing. Rae characterized the Burgh School as "one of the best secondary schools of Scotland at that period".
The Entrepreneurs I've gotten was the Jodrey Family. I will first talk about Roy A. Jodrey who was the one that started it then lead to his son John J.Jodrey.
He contributed to calculus, geometry, and trigonometry. Wallis worked hard to greatly contribute towards the development of calculus. Wallis also originated the idea of the number line , invented the symbol for infinity , and developed the standard notation for powers by extending them from positive integers to rational numbers. By working on the standard notion for awhile , he ended up extending Cavalieri’s quadratic formula. Wallis was also very good at mental math, apparently being able to difficult math equations in his head in a matter of minutes. Wallis' most influential work is the Arithmetica infinitorum, in which he evaluated the integral of (1 - x2)n from 0 to 1 for integral values of n. His procedure definitely laid the groundwork for more general techniques of the evaluation of integrals, borrowing from the German mathematician Johannes
» Part 1 Logarithms initially originated in an early form along with logarithm tables published by the Augustinian Monk Michael Stifel when he published ’Arithmetica integra’ in 1544. In the same publication, Stifel also became the first person to use the word ‘exponent’ and the first to indicate multiplication without the use of a symbol. In addition to mathematical findings, he also later anonymously published his prediction that at 8:00am on the 19th of October 1533, the world would end and it would be judgement day. However the Scottish astronomer, physicist, mathematician and astrologer John Napier is more famously known as the person who discovered them due to his work in 1614 called ‘Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio’.
Carl Friedrich Gauss was born April 30, 1777 in Brunswick, Germany to a stern father and a loving mother. At a young age, his mother sensed how intelligent her son was and insisted on sending him to school to develop even though his dad displayed much resistance to the idea. The first test of Gauss’ brilliance was at age ten in his arithmetic class when the teacher asked the students to find the sum of all whole numbers 1 to 100. In his mind, Gauss was able to connect that 1+100=101, 2+99=101, and so on, deducing that all 50 pairs of numbers would equal 101. By this logic all Gauss had to do was multiply 50 by 101 and get his answer of 5,050. Gauss was bound to the mathematics field when at the age of 14, Gauss met the Duke of Brunswick. The duke was so astounded by Gauss’ photographic memory that he financially supported him through his studies at Caroline College and other universities afterwards. A major feat that Gauss had while he was enrolled college helped him decide that he wanted to focus on studying mathematics as opposed to languages. Besides his life of math, Gauss also had six children, three with Johanna Osthoff and three with his first deceased wife’s best fri...
The 17th Century saw Napier, Briggs and others greatly extend the power of mathematics as a calculator science with his discovery of logarithms. Cavalieri made progress towards the calculus with his infinitesimal methods and Descartes added the power of algebraic methods to geometry. Euclid, who lived around 300 BC in Alexandria, first stated his five postulates in his book The Elements that forms the base for all of his later Abu Abd-Allah ibn Musa al’Khwarizmi, was born abo...