Mathematicians of the Great Awakening

I selected Pedro Nunes for my famous mathematician project, I chose this mathematician because i wanted to find out what a mathematician was. Also when i saw his picture he looked interesting and i wanted to learn more about him. His lifespan was 76 years he died in August 11, 1578. His birthplace was in Alcacer do sal, Portugal.

Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes was born September 11, 1890 in Washington, DC and died July 25, 1980 in Washington, DC. She went by the name of Euphemia Haynes. Ms. Haynes was an American mathematician and educator. She was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics. In September 1890, Haynes was born to Dr. William Lofton who was a dentist and a financial supporter of black institutions and charities, and to Mrs. Lavina Day Lofton who was active in the Catholic Church. She graduated from M. St High School in 1907, followed by Miner Normal School in 1909, and attended Smith College to earn a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics. Haynes married

Sophie Germain was born April 1st of 1776, an era of revolution. The American Revolution began around the year of her birth. Then thirteen years passed when the French Revolution began in her own country. In many ways Sophie personified the spirit of revolution into which she was born. She was a middle class female who went against the wishes of her family and the social prejudices of the time to become a highly recognized mathematician. Like the member of a revolution, her life was full of determination, up and downhill struggles. It took a long time for her to be recognized and appreciated for her contributions to the field of mathematics, but she did not give up. Because she was a woman she was never given as much credit as she was due

This period, however, was dominated by Bernoulli. He was responsible for further developing Leibniz’s calculus as well as Pascal and Fermat’s number theory. Leonhard Euler was another notable mathematician of this time. He worked in all field of mathematics and was able to find links between these different fields. He also proved multiple theorems and wrote many

David Hilbert was born in Konigsberg, Prussia on January 23, 1862 and went on to pursue a career in mathematics in his mother country before receiving a doctorate in 1885 for his study and thesis of invariant theory (David Hilbert, n.d.). Hilbert went on to begin a professional academic career at Konigsberg, where he taught until 1895 when he was "appointed to the chair of mathematics at the University of Gottingen, a post that he would hold for the remainder of his life.

There are few women that have made an impact on the math society compared with the number of men. A person can ramble off names such as Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Pythagoras of Samos, and Jean-François Niceron. Where are the women mathematicians? This paper will examine the lives of women that have made an impact on the world of

Kelly Miller, mathematician, intellectual, and political activist, who was born on July 23, 1863 in Winnsboro, South Carolina to Kelly and Elizabeth Miller. Miller attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. He earned a B.A. in 1886. While at Howard he served as a clerk in the US Pensions Office. Miller became the first graduate student at Johns Hopkins University in 1887, where he studied mathematics and physics. Increases in his tuition made Miller leave Johns Hopkins in 1889 without completing his graduate work. He continued his studies as a student, an English mathematician at the US Naval Observatory and briefly taught mathematics at M Street High School in Washington before being hired by Howard

During the Enlightenment their were a lot of great scientists who contributed to scientific advancements and made scientific history. One of the greatest was Isaac Newton who discovered the law of gravity by using natural laws of the physical world. The intellectuals thought they could discover the natural laws that govern human society by following the technique that Isaac Newton used to discover the law of gravity. Another great scientist was John Locke, whose ideas influenced and inspired other scientists that shaped America like Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson. His ideas were based on that  people were molded by the experiences that came to them through their senses of the surrounding world.

Many women have achieved in the mathematics field since the 1900’s. Especially women of color. No matter how young or old, these women have taken their careers in mathematics to an inspiring degree. Take the following women as examples, for they have created history in mathematics forever.

The brand of education amongst slaves from the Great Awakening takes on several faces, some prove to be profitable to the ideas spread by Whitefield while others prove to be detrimental to the perception of educating slaves in Christianity that prevent the further expansion of evangelization to slaves. Two portrayals of implementation of Awakening rhetoric are with the Bryan family, southern planters in South Carolina, and Samuel Davies, a minister in Virginia. The Bryan family had a connection with George Whitefield because they would provide assistance to evangelicals and in particular with Whitefield’s Bethesda orphanage in Georgia. They owned a plantation in South Carolina that helped provide financial support for the orphanage and they were zealous about the new wave of evangelicalism in the colonies and were seeking ways that they could implement the new teachings into their lives. Jonathan Bryan began to seek reforms in the institution of slavery in South Carolina by following the teachings of Whitefield. Their critiques of South Carolina were that there was no time for slaves to convert to Christianity because they would generally work seven days a week and not have the opportunity to hear about Christianity.

He was an English mathematician whose major contribution was the creation of “De Morgan’s Law”.

There was belief that there is a hidden peace in nature that can be expressed in mathematical laws. This belief was expressed in many ways by order and wholeness beneath wild profusion. There were many effects of the scientific revolution like the discovery of astronomy which is the feeling of infinite space that saturates Baroque art and also the rise of analytic reasoning skills. Instruments such as the telescope made by Galileo encouraged the search of skips and map parts of the universe. Many of the Scientific Revolution's findings contradicted accepted church teachings, many of the scientists and astronomers of the age were religious men and were certainly not directly intending to attack common 17th-century theology. Galileo was a devout

Grace Hopper was only a young girl when she took interest into the fields of math and science. Born Grace Murray in New York City on December 9, 1906 to her mother, Mary Campbell Van Horne Murray, an accomplished Mathematician and her father, a successful life insurance executive, Walter Fletcher Murray, who was quite liberal and, against societal norms, “made no distinction when it came to educating his son and two daughters” (Beyer, 25). Grace grew up with her sister, born Mary Murray and later married as Mary Murray Westcote and her brother, Roger Franklin Murray II, later earning the title of Dr. Roger Franklin Murray II. Ms. Hopper grew up in an Anglo-Saxon family and lived in the family home, 316 West 95th Street in New York City,

Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat was born in the year 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomages, France. Mr. Fermat's education began in 1631. He was home schooled. Mr. Fermat was a single man through his life. Pierre de Fermat, like many mathematicians of the early 17th century, found solutions to the four major problems that created a form of math called calculus. Before Sir Isaac Newton was even born, Fermat found a method for finding the tangent to a curve. He tried different ways in math to improve the system. This was his occupation. Mr. Fermat was a good scholar, and amused himself by restoring the work of Apollonius on plane loci. Mr. Fermat published only a few papers in his lifetime and gave no systematic exposition of his methods. He had a

Mathematics has contributed to the alteration of technology over many years. The most noticeable mathematical technology is the evolution of the abacus to the many variations of the calculator. Some people argue that the changes in technology have been for the better while others argue they have been for the worse. While this paper does not address specifically technology, this paper rather addresses influential persons in philosophy to the field of mathematics. In order to understand the impact of mathematics, this paper will delve into the three philosophers of the past who have contributed to this academic. In this paper, I will cover the views of three philosophers of mathematics encompassing their