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- 4371: Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- ... Sir Isaac Newton is the other major figure in the development of Calculus. He was an English mathemetician and physcist, whose considered to be one of the greatest scientists in history. Newton was born on December 25, 1642 at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire. He attended Trinity College, at the University of Cambridge. He received his bachelor's degree in 1665 ...
- 4372: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- ... predictions made by Dirac are still untested because his theoretical work was so far reaching, but many other predictions have been verified, assuring him of a special place in the history of physics.[6] Dirac was three years old when Einstein published his famous papers on relativity in 1905 and a year old when his predecessor Joseph Larmor began his tenure ...
- 4373: Leonhard Euler
- Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler, (born April 15, 1707, died Sept. 18, 1783), was the most prolific mathematician in history. His 866 books and articles represent about one third of the entire body of research on mathematics, theoretical physics, and engineering mechanics published between 1726 and 1800. In pure mathematics ...
- 4374: Blaise Pascal
- ... signifigant contribution to mathematics. The mechanical calculator was devised by Pascal in 1642 and was brought to a commercial version in 1645. It was one of the earliest in the history of computing. ‘Side by side in an oblong box were places six small drums, round the upper and lower halves chich the numbers 0 to 9 were written, in decending ...
- 4375: Apollonius of Perga
- ... systems of eccentric and epicyclic motion to explain planetary motion. Of particular interest was his determination of the points where a planet appears stationary. Bibliography 1. Boyer, Carl B. , The History of Analytic Geometry (1956) McGraw - Hill 2. Heath, Thomas L. , Manual of Greek Mathematics (1921; repr. 1981) 3. Van der Waerden, Bartel L., Science Awakening (1961).
- 4376: Albert Einstein
- ... with his parents, Herman and Pauline. Einstein attended a Catholic School near his home. But, at age 10, Einstein was transferred to the "Luitpold Gymnasium", where he learned Latin, Greek, History, and Geography. Einstein's father wanted him to attend a university but he could not because he did not have a diploma from the Gymnasium. But there was a solution ...
- 4377: Woodrow Wilson and His Ability To be an Effective President
- ... and discuss the books. If they were not reading often the two would sit and talk about recent events. He later moved onto college and studied American and British political history, public speaking, and law. After college he set up a law practice with Edward Renick. Because he had not learned the field of law thorough while in school, he showed ...
- 4378: Abort
- ... and supervised 10,000, before scientific evidence and the use of an ultrasound, convinced him he was promoting and participating what he now calls "the most atrocious holocaust in the history of the United States." Other doctors refuse to perform legal abortions, saying they should save lives rather than destroy them. Many argue is it the women's or the foetus ...
- 4379: Unemployment
- ... unemployment reached about 18 percent of the civilian labor force, and four less severe depressions occurred in the first quarter of the 20th century. The worst depression in United States history was in the 1930s. At its height, one worker in four was unemployed, and some remained out of work for years. In industrialized countries, with unemployment insurance and other forms ...
- 4380: The Life of Aristotle
- ... the collection, and after being lost, this description was rediscovered in a papyrus copy in 1890. Historians have found the work of great value in reconstructing many phases of the history of Athens. Logic In logic, Aristotle developed rules for chains of reasoning that would, if followed, never lead from true premises to false conclusions (validity rules). In reasoning, the basic ...
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