Pierre de Ronsard

Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat was born in 1601 “near Montauban”. He was born to a French leather merchant and was home-schooled. All of his free time was spent studying mathematics. He spent a good amount of time in his life arguing with Descartes which ended well and turned out to be “a friendly conclusion”. He found math very fun, delving into its deepest points and “amused himself by conjecturally restoring the work of Apollonius on plane loci.” Fermat didn’t publish anything in his

In 1896, the Olympic Games were officially reborn into the modern era thanks to a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin (Lewis, 1992). In 1904, the Games of the III Olympiad arrived in the United States, marking itself as the first Olympics to be held in said country as well as the first hosted outside of Europe. Often forgotten, this specific Olympics also signifies the beginning of the horrible luck Chicago, Illinois, has had regarding the hosting rights. With four losses under its belt and

“Although the ancient Games were staged … from 776 BC through 393 AD, it took 1503 years for the Olympics to return” (“The Games”). The Olympic Games were very important to the Greeks just like the Games are a huge spectacle for the world now. The Games were always important to the Greeks but it took a while for modern people to warm up to the idea. Once they warmed up to the idea of the Olympics they took off with it and it is now a global spectacle. The Olympics have a rich history, significant

The Birthday Paradox is the chance of 23 people in the same room to have the same birthday. It’s a 50 percent chance that there is. Surprisingly, the answer is only 23 people to have at least a 50 percent chance of a match. This goes up to 70 percent for 30 people, 90 percent for 41 people, 95 percent for 47 people. With 57 people there is better than a 99 percent chance of a birthday match. In my project i’m doing 50 people to have a better outcome. The concepts of this project is mathematical probability

edict was the rulers proclamation when he assumed power from the previous ruler and it is believed that he literally banned the games in this order. After Christians proclamation the games were not revived until the late 1800s by a frenchman named Pierre de Coubertin. He was Born into a French aristocratic family, he became an academic and studied a broad range of topics, most notably education and history. In 1892 Coubertin proposed a series of games every four years. His

been something that enlightens him” (para. 19). It may be intriguing that Julian thinks the mother is to blame yet he promises “Someday I’ll start making money’...he knew he never would” (Gilbert para. 16). Much like the evolutionary vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the symbol of the mother’s passing is Julian’s time to ascend, “which give the story its title” (Montogomery para.

elephant and hippopotami teeth and bone fragments, had been whitened similar in fashion to the ‘cricket bat’ found at the Piltdown II site; the cricket bat having been made form an elephant femur. Hinton had experimented with bone and tooth staining (De Groote et al., 2016) predominantly staining them with iron to match the gravels of a Pleistocene era (Gardiner, 2003)… Also among Hinton’s effects, were eight human teeth that had been stained with iron, chromium, and manganese (Gardiner & Currant,

Slaves of Society: The Women of Les Liaisons dangereuses With each letter in Les Liaisons dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos advances a great many games of chess being played simultaneously. In each, the pieces—women of the eighteenth-century Parisian aristocracy—are tossed about mercilessly but with great precision on the part of the author. One is a pawn: a convent girl pulled out of a world of simplicity and offered as an entree to a public impossible to sate; another is a queen: a calculating

John Hughes Mr. Lace Senior Theology Honors 18 November 2011 Mr. Lace Trimester Final Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, A. North Whitehead, Monsignor Luigi Guissani, and Charles Hartshorne have contributed significant bits of Theology as the Roman Catholic Church, perhaps a century late, has finally come to a difficult crossroads about the creation of the world: Should the Vatican alter (no pun intended) modify Church Dogmas, which are infallible snippets of doctrinal teaching, or ignore rapid

Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos Laclos wrote what was one of the most scandalous writings of his time. He was born October 18th 1741 and died September 5th, 1803 at the age of 61. He was considered a beginners writer and to have a morbid look on human relations which is what he choose to write about in Dangerous Liaisons. Although he was a military official with little literary training his book Les Liaisons Dangereuses came to be literally acclaimed in the 18th century. Laclos was born into