Hernandez Mr. Best Math 1332 April 2, 2014 Sir William Rowan Hamilton was born on August 4, 1805 in Dublin, Ireland. His remarkable intelligence developed at the early age of 3, and he made many successful contributions in math and science. Hamilton excelled in the dynamics of the math and science world such as geometrical optics, quaternions, Cayley-Hamilton theorem, and Hamiltonian mechanics. On April 23, 1827 while studying geometrical optics Hamilton discovered The Theory System of Rays. The
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, sometimes called Karl, was a German mathematician in the 19th century. His importance and role in mathematics was his contribution to several functions, equations, and theories. He created several things in math that are named after him. He was most famous for his improvement on elliptic functions. Although Niels Henrik Abel first discovered the function, Jacobi has always been best known for his addition to his work and different things he discovered. Carl Gustav Jacob
Alexander Hamilton had been given the job as Secretary of the Treasury by President George Washington. Hamilton was now in charge of fixing the United States economy which was still looking to pay off debts. In an attempt to gain the vote to get his legislation passed, he wanted to assume the debt of both the State
Ernst Eduard Kummer Ernst Eduard Kummer made a large impact on the world of mathematics and helped discover and understand different properties of trigonometry and geometry. He helped prove Fermat’s Last Theorem, also known as Fermat’s conjunction. Kummer introduced the idea of “ideal” numbers can go in for infinity. xm-ym=zm. In this case m must be greater than two, and a whole number. Kummer soon found out that that works for all whole prime numbers less the 100 to be m. He won an award at the
Since hundred years ago, when people started to make maps to show distinct regions, such as states or countries, the four color theorem has been well known among many mapmakers. Because a mapmaker who can plan very well, will only need four colors to color the map that he makes. The basic rule of coloring a map is that if two regions are next to each other, the mapmaker has to use two different colors to color the adjacent regions. The reason is because when two regions share one boundary can never
on to his brother, Frederick. He then submitted this to his professor Augustus deMorgan as a mathematical conjecture. deMorgan was fascinated by the Four-Color problem and wrote in a letter to his colleague Sir William Rowan Hamilton the next day after seeing the conjecture. Hamilton was less enlightened by it, and never worked on it. It was through deMorgan that the Four-Color problem was made known, thus deMorgan has incorrectly been dubbed the originator of the problem. Eventually
How far does imaginary numbers go back in history? First must know that an imaginary number is a number that is expressed in terms of the square root of a negative number. This fact took several centuries of convincing for certain mathematicians to believe, but imaginary numbers have been used all the back to the first century, and is now being widely used by people all around the world to this day. It is thanks to people like Heron of Alexandria, Girolamo Cardano, Rafael Bombelli, and other mathematician’s
The latter half of the nineteenth century became a time of evolution for different forms of mathematics such as symbolic algebra, Riemannian geometry, Boolean algebra , and quaternion calculus. "To him [Lewis Carroll], algebra was all about numbers," mathematician Keith Devlin explained. “But in the 19th century, people were developing all kinds of bizarre new algebras, where x times y was not equal to y times x.” (Devlin) While mathematicians knew that Carroll, a mathematician himself, was slipping
Within the growing number of women in higher education, there is a growing population of students who are also mothers. Mothers attempting to obtain a degree contend with home and family demands that affect their degree completion rates (Carney-Crompton & Tan, 2002; Home, 1998). These postsecondary education students, unlike their traditional peers, are not developing into adult identities that are supported by a traditional college setting (Arnett, Ramos & Jensen, 2001; Arnett, 2000) but instead
The History of Math Mathematics, study of relationships among quantities, magnitudes, and properties and of logical operations by which unknown quantities, magnitudes, and properties may be deduced. In the past, mathematics was regarded as the science of quantity, whether of magnitudes, as in geometry, or of numbers, as in arithmetic, or of the generalization of these two fields, as in algebra. Toward the middle of the 19th century, however, mathematics came to be regarded increasingly as the