...philosophical references that one somehow doubts sprang from the copious pages of Palin 's diaries, including the role of Blaise Pascal 's philosophy in her girlhood conversion from Catholicism to Evangelical Protestantism. Rutten notes that...

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...why this is so, but it makes for an entertaining project on a slow day in your cubicle. A student of mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss and Johann Pfaff , Mobius is known today primarily for his mathematical and topological discoveries,...

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...over a long period of time," Clarke said. "2010, for instance, marks the 400th anniversary of the death in Beijing of the legendary Jesuit, Matteo Ricci. The increased focus on Asian studies thus not only touches on a vibrant future but also...

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...named Sara , who is struggling with math on the night before a test, when she receives some unexpected help from Albert Einstein , Blaise Pascal , Lady Ada Lovelace , and Pythagoras. In the course of 60 funny and imaginative minutes,...

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...studied recently by Wilbur Knorr , who suggested that the attribution to Hero is incorrect, and that the true author is Diophantus. Diophantus ' work has had a large influence in history. Editions of Arithmetica exerted a profound influence...

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...expeditione apud Sinas, and soon was translated to a number of other European languages. Painting of Matteo Ricci in which he was depicted as wearing "Chinese scholar" robe, dated 1611. Matteo Ricci dressed in traditional Chinese robes...

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He is notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker in their disproof of the famous conjecture made by Leonhard Euler dated 1782 that there do not exist two mutually orthogonal latin squares of order 4n + 2 for...

In this article: Mathematics, R. C. Bose, University of Mumbai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Central Michigan University, Banaras Hindu University, Leonhard Euler, and Banaras

...no more open problems. However, his talent was noticed, and he was encouraged to go to Paris in 1948. Initially, Grothendieck attended Henri Cartan 's Seminar at Ecole Normale Superieure, but lacking the necessary background to follow the...

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...century and by Ibn al-Yasamin in the 12th century. In contrast to the syncopated notations of their predecessors, Diophantus and Brahmagupta , which lacked symbols for mathematical operations , al-Qalasadi's algebraic notation was the first...

In this article: Leonhard Euler, Derivative, Kurt Godel, Mathematics, Bertrand Russell, Liber Abaci, Diophantus, William Jones, Fibonacci, and Arithmetica

The 18th-century Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) is among the most prolific and successful mathematicians in the history of the field . His seminal work had a profound impact in numerous areas of mathematics and he is widely...

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He was notable for his work along with S. S. Shrikhande and E. T. Parker in their disproof of the famous conjecture made by Leonhard Euler dated 1782 that there do not exist two mutually orthogonal Latin squares of order 4''n'' + 2 for every...

In this article: Raj Chandra Bose, Leonhard Euler, S. S. Shrikhande, S. N. Roy, D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Calcutta, and P. C. Mahalanobis

...built the famous tower, he included the names of 72 prominent French scientists on plaques around the first stage, Poinsot included. " Poinsot was determined to publish only fully developed results and to present them with clarity and...

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...and thinker, he is still revered in several Asian countries. His conclusions on life and the world around him started the movement of Confucianism , which was introduced to the West by Matteo Ricci , an Italian Jesuit, in the late 16th century.

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...countries. His conclusions on life and the world around him started the movement of Confucianism , which was introduced to the West by Matteo Ricci , an Italian Jesuit, in the late 16th century. By submitting any material to us you confirm...

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...Babylonians were the first people to use algebraic formulas to solve problems, but they didn't refine the practice. A mathematician named Diophantus , who lived in ancient Alexandria around 200 AD, set the foundation of algebraic methods of...

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...of the new (1931) Indian Statistical Institute. Several talented young scholars including J. M. Sengupta , H. C. Sinha , Raj Chandra Bose , S. N. Roy , K. R. Nair , K. Kishen and C. R. Rao , joined to form an active group of statisticians under...

In this article: S. N. Roy, Raj Chandra Bose, University of North Carolina, University of Calcutta, Indian Statistical Institute, P. C. Mahalanobis, Mathematics, Tribune, and Presidency College, Kolkata

...of Fisher 's ideas by writing expository pieces. In his appreciation Greenberg recalls the mathematical statisticians R. C. Bose and S. N. Roy telling him how by reading Irwin they been able to understand Fisher. Another valuable...

In this article: Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Karl Pearson, Peter Armitage, R. C. Bose, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Last Updated: 8:13PM BST 24 Aug 2008 Cartan : his Homological Algebra, published in 1956, remains a standard text Photo: AFP/GETTY Henri Cartan , who died on August 13 aged 104, inherited the mathematical genius of his father, Elie...

In this article: Henri Cartan, Mathematics, Elie Cartan, Andre Weil, Paul Montel, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, and Nicolas Bourbaki