Evariste Galois was a French boy born in Bourg-La-Reine October 25th 1811 to May 31st 1832. Born with both parents well educated in classical literature, religion and philosophy.There was never a record of mathematics in is family. Evaristes father was a republican who was head of the Bourg-la-Reine’s liberal party. When he was 10 his parents send him to a college in Reims where he got s grant. Soon his mother changed her mind thinking he would b defenseless on his own so she kept him home. His mother taught him his education until the age of 12. As a child he was never recorded to show any interest in the studies of mathematics. When he turned 14 he enrolled in his first school lycee of Louis-le-Grand in Paris where he took his first math class and he began his path to his future goals.
When Galois entered his first college Louis-le-Grand he was ranked number one in Latin and this was because of his preparation in education with his mother. Eventually he began to lose interest in school and was asked to repeat one year due to the lack of his rethoric school standards. Galois soon re...
The world which faced him as he left the College was full with strong political activity. During this period, Louis lived with his aunt, Lucie Riel, and managed to find employment in the law office. Louis fel...
Riel was educated by Roman Catholic priests in the St. Boniface area at a young age. In his teenage years, Riel was recognized by Bishop Alexandre Tache, who was promoting the priesthood for talented Metis at the time. In 1858, Riel attended the Petit Seminaire at the College de Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, which was arranged by Bishop Tache and was held by the Sulpician order of priests (Guilbeault, 2007). While in Montreal, Riel studied English, Science, French, Greek, Latin, and Philosophy (Guilbeault, 2007). Riel was a scholar in his studies and did well in all of his subjects (Worldwide Sunshine, 2013). He appeared to enjoy his studies.
At the age of eleven, the marquis was sent to school in Paris at the College du Plessis. He resided there for four years, learning various subject matter and proper etiquette that would enable him in change to become an educated and well-mannered noble. The curriculum included Latin, the study most emphasized in France at the time; and French rhetoric, which he greatly favored (Gottschalk 18, 19).
After responding to a newspaper advertisement, Griffin and his family were surprised to find that he had been offered a scholarship at the boys’ private school in France, Lycée Descartes. Although he didn’t speak any French, Griffin persuaded his parents to let him go.
Vincent went to a village school for the first few years of his life, but his parents soon hired a governess. A few years later, they decided once again to change Vincent's schooling, and sent him Mr. Provily's school in a nearby town when he was eleven (2 Greenberg p 7). By thirteen, he was studying Dutch, German, French, and English, along with history, geography, botany, zoology, calligraphy, arithmetic, gymnastics, and drawing; but by March of his fifteenth year, he returned home without finishing school (Muhlberger p 7).
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born on February 28, 1533, in a time when only the wealthy received the privilege of a good education. Around 1539, Montaigne's father sent him to the College of Guyenne in Bordeaux, where, by the time he had reached his thirteenth year, had completed the curriculum under the direction of George Buchanan. Montaigne spoke well of his educators and praised their teaching techniques, but chastised the stern discipline of most of the schools during his time. He said that if one were to visit a college where lessons were in progress, nothing could be heard, save “the cries of children being beaten and of masters drunk with anger.”1 In his work, The Essays, Montaigne emphasizes some very important subjects, such as the need to teach children with gentleness, make learning an enjoyable experience, and train a child's personality. Though Montaigne's thoughts on education may be contrasting to the world today, he understood the process of learning very well. His ideas may be applied to instructional theory to this day.
Pierre was pushed by his wife and parents to submit his doctoral thesis and in which case he did. Marie got her teaching diploma as well. Their first daughter, Irene was born in 1897. Through Pierre’s position at the school, he managed to get permission for Marie to use the school laboratories. This helped persuade Marie the find a topic for her doctoral thesis.
Since girls were not permitted to attend any college preparatory schools, she decided to go to a general finishing school. There she studied and became certified to teach English and French. Soon after she altered her mind and decided that she wanted to pursue an education in mathematics. In 1904 Erlangen University accepted Emmy as one of the first female college students. In 1907 she received a Ph.D. in mathematics from this University. From 1908 to 1915 she worked at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen without getting compensated or titled. The only reason she was permitted to work there was because she was helping her dad out by lecturing for his class when he was out sick. During these years she worked with Algebraist Ernst Otto Fisher and also started to work on theoretical algebra, which would make her a known mathematician in the future. She started working at the mathematical Institute in Göttingen and started to assist with Einstein’s general relativity theory. In 1918 she ended up proving two theorems which were a fundamental need f...
Emma Noether was a very iconic female mathematician who accomplished many significant things for women and math itself. This extraordinary woman was born on March 23rd, 1882 and reached her deathbed at the age of 53 on April 14th, 1935. Emma was born in Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany. She was born into a Jewish family, her father Max Noether was also a mathematician and her mother resided as a housewife. Emma was someone that when she put her mind to something, she would not stop until she achieved greatness. During this time women were not allowed to receive a high education and women were excluded from an academic position. At that time since she was unable to attend a regular college she took part in a finishing school where she specialized
Raymond was sent to the cathedral school in Barcelona to be educated in the arts (i.e. the trivium and
For the medieval student, he attends today's equivalent of a grammar school, a cathedral school, until he reaches the age of twelve. He has studied, extensively, Latin grammar and was assumed to know it thoroughly before entering the university setting. This student must know a great deal of educational information in order to succeed at the university. The student is also very mature for his young age.
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...
Burton, D. (2011). The History of Mathematics: An Introduction. (Seventh Ed.) New York, NY. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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...