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    Math is a big part of our lives now because once we get jobs we usually have to count money or add things up and in high school and college math gets even harder every year. This woman was born in the era of revolution when she was born the American Revolution had just began and a decade and two years later the French Revolution had begun in her own country. Sophie Germain was a middle class female who followed her dreams the dreams she wanted not the ones her parents wanted. She was born April

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    Carl Friedrich Gauss, from his youth, was destined to be a great mathematician. By the time Gauss turned three, he had already taught himself to read and write. Additionally, Gauss often told acquaintances and friends that before he learned to speak, he learned to make mental calculations. Throughout his lifetime, Gauss made discoveries which would benefit many fields within mathematics. Gauss contributed greatly to the fields of arithmetic, statistics, geometry, algebra, and astronomy. The origin

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    IaOng Moua Professor McLeod Math 451: Axiomatic Geometry Research Paper 12/13/16 History of Hyperbolic Geometry The discovery of non-Euclidean geometry is credited to nineteenth-century mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, and János Bolyai because they are first to recognize that the negation of Euclid’s Fifth Postulate as an axiom produced another geometry that was as rich and solid as that of Euclidean geometry (Venema, 2012). However, several concepts of Hyperbolic

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    Sir George Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was born on September 17, 1826 in Breselenz, Hanover which is now Germany. He died July 20, 1866 he was only 39 years old he died of pleuritic. He went to school at the Lyceum where he would end up living with his grandmother, but in 1842 his grandmother had passed away, so he moved to the Johanneum Gymnasium in Luneburg there he learned about Theology and Hebrew, but soon he was learning more about Mathematics. The director of the Gymnasium notices this and

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    good possibility for her to see the math and science world. In the year of 1804, Sophie was corresponding her work with a German mathematician named Carl Friedrich Gauss. She was fascinated with his labor in the number theory, so she sent him some of her work in the number theory. She had disguised herself and her male name was M. Leblanc. Gauss did not find out that he had a very gifted women pen pal until the year of 1807.Twelve years later, Germain wrote to a mathematician named Legendre and

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    geometry” and his works continue to influence mathematical fields today. Elements was first set in type in 1482 in Venice making it one of the earliest mathematical books to be printed following the invention of the printing press. It is estimated by Carl Benjamin Boyer to be second only to the Bible in the number of editions published,[7] with the number reaching well over one thousand.[8] For centuries the quadrivium was included in the curriculum of all university students and knowledge of at least

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    INTRODUCTION Maxwell’s Equations are a set of four mathematical equations that provides the foundation to the largely abstract concepts of electricity and magnetism. They are a mathematical condensation of all the basic rules, by which electricity and magnetism function. Refer to Figure 1 for the equations. Although James Clerk Maxwell himself only contributed to the last equation, his contribution led to one of the most important discoveries in the history of science. However, it wasn’t until 25

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    Calculus is the branch of mathematics that deals with rates of change and motion. It was developed because of the need to explain various natural occurrences within in the universe, such as the orbits of planets, and the effects of gravity. Today, calculus is the basic segment of science and engineering. Calculus allows physical laws to be expressed in mathematical terms. In science it is valuable in the further analysis of physical laws in predicting the behavior of physical laws, and in discovering

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    community and the unsponsored paranormal researchers, how can the NSF rely on certain information despite the many proven hoaxes? Well, there are many supposedly legitimate means to obtain evidence of supernatural phenomenon. For example, a Gauss Meter or EMF Meter is meant to measure EMF wavelengths. An EMF is a Electromagnetic field, something well understood by scientists and paranormal researchers

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    Germain was famous for Formulating Sophie Germain’s theorem and her work in number theory, mathematics acoustics and elasticity (Sophie, Famous). She submitted a letter to the Carl Friedrich Gauss. The letter contained the first substantial progress toward a proof in the area of number theory in the last 200 years, the Sophie Germain theory (Sophie, Famous). In the area of elasticity, Germain wrote a paper on 1811, she submitted that

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