Essay Database

known facts about Diophantus's life. Some of the things I found though were that he studied at the University of Alexandria in Egypt. He is know as the "Father of Algebra". He did numerous things for the world of mathematics. One of his greatest contrib…

five regular polyhedra, and I intend to prove why there are exactly five polyhedra. Ok, firstly, we need to identify what the five polyhedra are. They are the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the icosahedron, and the dodecahedron. All of these…

study of those properties of geometric figures that remain unchanged even when under distortion, so long as no surfaces are torn. The word topology was coined in 1930 by the mathematician Solomon Lefschetz; who was a pioneer in the developing of the…

Graphical Methods in Research, many of the currently popular graphical forms are credited to William Playfair (1759-1823), who was a draftsman for another well-known mathematician, James Watt, and brother of the well-known scientist John Playfair…

Hungary on March 26, 1913. His two sisters died right before he was born, so his parents were extra cautious. At age 3, he was multiplying 3- digit numbers in his head and at age 4 he learned about negative numbers- he told his mother that 100-250=…

to as the Divine Proportion, the golden ratio or the Golden Rectangle. This proportion has been demonstrated in the Greek architecture of the Parthenon, the Renaissance architecture of Leon Battista Alberti's Santa Maria Novella in Florence,…

30, 1777 in Brunswick. The German scientist and mathematician is called the founder of modern mathematics. His work in physics and astronomy is as good as his work in mathematics. Biographists say that he got his good health from his father. Gauss…

early age are 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. These are called the 'Natural numbers', and can be placed on a number line from 1 to infinity. The natural numbers, in order, are always 1 whole number larger or smaller than the next. When we add or subtract…

Next to nothing is known about the movement of the idea of a magic square before about 1300 AD. Three cultures are known to have created magic squares, the Chinese, the Indian, and the Arabic. In each culture they were viewed as having supernatural…

the most famous number theorists in history, but he was not a mathematician. He was a lawyer who served at the highest level of the criminal court in Toulouse ( Mahoney 3). Yet this amateur came up with an equation that stumped mathematicians for over…