Born: APRIL 15, 1707 Parents: Paulus Euler and Margaretha Brucker EARLY LIFE Father came from modest folk, mostly artisians, while mother’s ancestors include a number of well known scholars. Leonhard received his first lessons in mathematics at home from his father. Around the age of eight he was sent to the Latin school in Basel and given a place to stay at his maternal grandmother’s house. To compensate for the poor quality then prevailing at the school, his father hired a private tutor for his son, a young theologian by the name of Johannes Burckhardt, himself an enthusiastic lover of mathematics. In October of 1720, at the age of thirteen Leonhard enrolled at the University of Basel, first at the philosophical faculty, where he took the
Jouette M. Bassler’s book Navigating Paul provided interesting perspectives on the well-known character. Paul began as a tormentor of the early Christian Church as he believed Jesus to be a fabricated messiah. Paul was a man of the Law (Jewish Torah) and belonged to the Pharisees, a sect of Jews that stringently observed the traditional law of the Jews. Pharisees always saw themselves as superior to other Jews and particularly over Gentiles.
In 1926 there was a woman who was the first woman to swim on the english channel and previously won the 1924 Olympics, her name was Gertrude Ederle.She was born October 23, 1906, she belongs to german immigrants who moved to New York City. Gertrude went the Olympics and got a gold medal in the 4x100 meter relay and a bronze 100 meter and 400 meter relay. June 1925 Gertrude was 19 years old when she beated the old swim record of swimming from New York Battery to Sand Hook, New Jersey.Gertrude’s first attempt to swim on the english channel was shot down because there was a technicality.Her first coach, the one that was with her the first time, told Gertrude to stop because there was too much salt water going into her mouth and he was worried
During this time he was tested to see what skills he had, the results show that he was very good in all categories, but he was especially excellent in mathematics. When he was
Filippo was given literary and mathematical education intended to enable him to follow in the footsteps of his father, a civil servant. His ability and understanding of clocks and the principles that go into their manufacture would prove invaluable early insights into engineering, he also had an early back ground in sculpture, he also measured
In her early life, Kovalevsky belong to a wealthy, Russian family who provided her with special tutors who prolonged her newfound fascination with mathematics, many of which were women rights activists and shared their knowledge on the subject with her. Once Kovalevsky moved to Berlin, she began visiting a private tutor – as she was not allowed to attend college at the time. It wasn’t until 1870 that she submitted her papers on Saturn's rings and on elliptic integrals to the University of Göttingen. This forwarded her career as she had earned her doctorate for these studies.
Starvation! One of the many things Alice Paul is known for is starving herself for the right for women to vote, now you may ask what kept her going, well it was her want for a change that fueled her through these tough times, and like she once said “ Food simply isn't something that’s important to me”. Alice was also the pivotal force that got the acceptance of the nineteenth amendment. This was just one of her many accomplishments for society. Alice Paul was an important person in history because of her humble beginnings, her achievements as a determined suffragist that led to the amazing legacy, and lasting contributions she left behind.
As a child he had attended an integrated school, taught himself to read, and had little to no interest in mathematics or geometry. As he entered high school, his interest in algebra and trigonometry grew. A teacher of one of his math courses, Ms. Caroline Luther opened his eyes and made mathematics more fascinating and attention grabbing. He graduated at the young age of 16 and went to study at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana to earn his doctoral degree in mathematics at age 22. He then studied for a year at
Shortly after the start of WW1, young Paul Baumer was a high schooler with his friends graduating soon. Flyers and rumors were everywhere about the war, encouraging people to join the German army. It wasn’t until they were being influenced by their teacher’s stirring patriotic speeches that they were really entailed to join. Thus started the beginning of these boys road to the end. After experiencing ten weeks of brutal training, Paul realized that the ideals of nationalism and patriotism for which he enlisted are simply empty promises. He no longer believes that war is glorious or honorable, and he along with his friends live in constant physical terror. When Paul’s company receives a short reprieve after two weeks of fighting, only eighty
Born in 1483 to a family of peasant origins (his father worked in a copper mine in the Mansfeld region), Martin Luther was admitted in 1505 to the Augustinian convent of Erfurt, where his intellectual qualities were quickly noticed. Ordained a priest two years later, he was appointed to teach philosophy. Later, he taught biblical theology at the University of Wittenberg, where he became a doctor of
Born on February 15 in Florence, Galileo was born to a renowned musician. Galileo started his education in the Camaldolese monastery which is located in Vallombrosa, and then he studied medicine at the University of Pisa where his favorite subjects were mathematics and physics. Galileo's aim was to become a professor in the University, but unfortunately, he left the university without receiving his degree after dealing with with financial complications. Despite these difficulties, Galileo continued his studies in mathematics adding studies related to motion within objects which led to his publishing of "The Little Balance" which had a great impact on his fame leading him to a position in the University of Pisa as a professor.
Mathematics and Physics were only a hobby for him. Finally at age thirty, three years after releasing his first paper, Amedeo Avogadro quit practing law to become a math and science teacher at the local high school. In 1809, after only three years of teaching, he was offered a job to be a senior teacher at The College of Vercelli. It was quite unusual for a person with only three years of teaching experience, no degree in teaching, and never having taught in college to be given such an important job so quickly.
Bernoulli was soon exposed to Euler’s brilliance in analytical science and presently saw his true potential, and gained a new respect for him. Euler procured his degree of Master of Arts in philosophy in 1723 by comparing and contrasting the ideas of Descartes and Newton. He then attempted to gain degrees in Theology and Oriental languages on his father’s request, but did not complete the course due to disinterest in the subject, and soon, with his father’s permission, returned to the study of mathematics.
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
Lagrange began to be recognized for his studies and work in mathematics so that at the age of nineteen, he was selected to be a professor at the Royal Artillery School in Turin. Thus, Lagrange’s career began.
The next couple of years found him relocated all around Europe until he settles in Paris in 1626. In the five years from when he left the army until his alighting in Paris, Descartes had devoted his life to the study of pure mathematics. There, in Paris, Descartes would live for two years until Cardinal de Berulle, founder of the Oratorians, urged on Descartes the duty of “devoting his life to the examination of truth.” (Wilkins, D.). Now 1628, Descartes moved again, this time to Holland, to secure himself from interruption. He would spend the next twenty years in Holland, focusing on philosophy and mathematics.