81. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Search/Browse Results chaotic manner was first noticed by the great french mathematician HenriPoincaré . systems governed by Newton s laws, as the french mathematician . http://www.psigate.ac.uk/roads/cgi-bin/search_webcatalogue.pl?term1=Poincare&lim

82. Pierre De Fermat The french mathematician Pierre de Fermat(16011665) was possibly the mostproductive mathematician of his era, making many contributions, some of which http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~cherlin/History/Papers1999/chellani.html

PIERRE DE FERMAT Yogita Chellani Term Paper, History of Mathematics, Rutgers The French mathematician Pierre de Fermat(1601-1665) was possibly the most productive mathematician of his era, making many contributions, some of which were to calculus, number theory, and the law of refraction. We will survey those contributions here, paying particular attention to his work in number theory. While relatively little is known of Fermat's early education, it is known that he was of Basque origin and received his primary and secondary education at the monastery of Grandsl ve, run by the Cordeliers (Franciscans), in Beaumont-de-Lomagne. For his advanced studies he first attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620's. In Bordeaux (1629) Fermat began his first serious mathematical researches, where he gave a copy of his restoration of Appollonius's Plane Loci to one of the mathematicians there. In Bordeaux he contacted Beaugrand and during this time he produced work on maxima and minima. He gave his work to Etienne de'Espagnet, who shared mathematical interests with Fermat. "Fermat's offices made him a member of that social class also and entitled him to add the "de" to his name, which he did from 1631 on." (Mahoney, p.16)

83. TRIVIA GAME This 19th century french mathematician did very innovative work with equations and This french mathematician penned The Elements de Geometrie in 1794, http://www.germantownacademy.org/academics/MS/PiDay/trivia.htm

3.14 TRIVIA GAME 1. This remarkable Swiss mathematician and teacher was responsible for instituting the use of the symbol for pi in mathematical notation. 2. The Islamic scientist/mathematician AL-Khowarizmi is credited with coining the word. His book, written in 825 AD, demonstrated how to solve equations and became widely popular throughout the world. 3. This 17th century English mathematician wrote two famous books on mathematics: The Artihmetica and The Algebra. He invented the term interpolation and created a celebrated formula for determining the value of pi. 4. numerals are the most common system of number notation used in today’s world. 5. What extraordinary Indian mathematician created a formula to rapidly calculate the value of pi? He was fascinated with infinity. 6. What popular graphical artist uses mathematical principles such as mobius strips, knots,optical illusions and transformations in his work? 7. This 19th century French mathematician did very innovative work with equations and quadratic forms. He correspondended at length with other mathematicians and often contributed to their work. His work with transcendental numbers was the foundation for later proof of the transcendence of pi.

84. Zetetic Astronomy, Earth Not A Globe: Chapter XIV. Examination Of The So-Called an eminent french mathematician, undertook to investigate the and, as inthe other great discovery by the celebrated french mathematician, http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za60.htm

Sacred Texts Earth Mysteries Index Previous ... Buy this Book at Amazon.com THE PLANET NEPTUNE. FOR some years the advocates of the earth's rotundity, and of the Newtonian philosophy generally, were accustomed to refer, with an air of pride and triumph, to the supposed discovery of a new planet, to which the name of "Neptune" was given, as an undeniable evidence of the truth of their system or theory. The existence of this luminary was said to have been predicated from calculation only, and for a considerable period before it was seen by the telescope. The argument was, "That the system by which such a discovery was made, must, of necessity, be true." An article which appeared in the "Illustrated London Almanack," for 1847, contained the following words: p. 329 "Whatever view we take of this noble discovery, it is most gratifying, whether at the addition of another planet to our list, whether at the proving the correctness of the theory of universal gravitation, or in what view soever, it must be considered as a splendid discovery, and the merit is chiefly due to theoretical astronomy. This discovery is perhaps the greatest triumph of astronomical science that has ever been recorded." If such things as criticism, experience, and comparative observation did not exist, the tone of exultation in which the above-named writer indulges might still be shared in by the astronomical student; but let the following summary of facts and extracts be carefully read, and it will be seen that such a tone was premature and unwarranted.

85. April 9 - Today In Science History french mathematician who greatly developed the theory of Lie groups and contributedto french mathematician and astronomer whose theory of lunar motion http://www.todayinsci.com/4/4_09.htm

Visit our new gallery of Perpetual Motion Machines through the centuries APRIL 9 - BIRTHS Heisuke Hironaka (source) Born 9 Apr 1931 J. Presper Eckert, Jr. (source) Born 9 Apr 1919; died 3 Jun 1995. J(ohn) Presper Eckert, Jr. was an American engineer and coinventor of the first general-purpose electronic computer, a digital machine that was the prototype for most computers in use today. In 1946, Eckert with John W. Mauchly fulfilled a government contract to build a digital computer to be used by the U.S. Army for military calculations. They named it ENIAC for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. By 1949, they had started a manufacturing company for their BINAC computer. This was followed by a business oriented computer, UNIVAC (1951), which was put to many uses and spurred the growth of the computer industry. By 1966 Eckert held 85 patents, mostly for electronic inventions. "ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer" by Scott McCartney Gregory Pincus (source) Born 9 Apr 1903; died 22 Aug 1967. Gregory (Goodwin) Pincus was an American endocrinologist whose work on the antifertility properties of steroids led to the development of the first effective oral contraceptive: the birth-control pill. In 1934, Pincus made national headlines by achieving in-vitro fertilization of rabbits. The public was not ready for the vision of test-tube babies; instead of fame, he received notoriety. Consequently, he moved a small independent laboratory. There he did applied research, especially on steroids. In 1953, he was approached about developing a new form of

86. July 1 - Today In Science History french mathematician and educator known for his writings on abstract algebra, french mathematician and engineer whose study of the pole and polar lines http://www.todayinsci.com/7/7_01.htm

Visit our new gallery of Perpetual Motion Machines through the centuries JULY 1 - BIRTHS Alfred G. Gilman (source) Born 1 Jul 1941 Alfred Goodman Gilman is an American pharmacologist who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with American biochemist Martin Rodbell for their separate research in discovering molecules called G proteins , which are intermediaries in the multistep pathway cells use to react to an incoming signal, such as a hormone or neurotransmitter. Gilman and his co-workers used genetic and biochemical techniques to identify and purify the G protein. Gerald Maurice Edelman (source) Born 1 Jul 1929 American biochemist whose contributions in elucidating the chemical structure of antibodies won him (with Rodney Porter) the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1972. Edelman studied the structure of human immunoglobulin. He first split this large molecule into smaller portions, by reducing and splitting the disulfide bonds. Edelman proposed that the molecule contained two kinds of polypeptide chains: light and heavy. From such studies, Porter proposed a structure for the antibody immunoglobulin G (IgG) in 1962. Edelman aimed to work out the complete amino-acid sequence of IgG. As it contained 1330 amino acids it was by far the largest protein then attempted. By 1969 he announced the complete sequence. Norman Wingate Pirie (source) Born 1 Jul 1907; died 29 Mar 1997.

87. Kyocera North America: Kyoto Prize french Mathematician to Receive 2002 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences NYU Prof.Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov to be honored for lifelong contributions to http://www.kyotoprize.org/pressrel_062102_b.htm

Kyoto Laureate Symposium Press Releases ... Site French Mathematician to Receive 2002 Kyoto Prize in "Basic Sciences" NYU Prof. Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov to be honored for lifelong contributions to geometry Prof. Gromov is a professor both at the Institute des Hautes Études Scientifiques near Paris and at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. On November 10, Prof. Gromov and two other 2002 Kyoto Prize laureates will receive diplomas, Kyoto Prize gold medals, and cash gifts of 50 million yen approximately US$400,000 apiece during prize ceremonies in Kyoto, Japan. In addition, the three will convene in San Diego, Calif., March 5-7, 2003, for the second annual Kyoto Laureate Symposium at the University of San Diego. Basic Sciences The 2002 Kyoto Prize for Basic Sciences has been chosen from the field of mathematical sciences. Prof. Gromov will receive the award for completely toppling the traditional approaches to geometry. While mathematicians before him studied individual properties of space, Prof. Gromov proposed the innovative idea of considering the distance between spaces which he identified as "like" (close) or "unlike" (far) to create a deeper understanding by allowing spaces to be compared. Based on this idea, he has solved a great number of problems, particularly those concerning the relationships between the global structure of a space and its curvature, and the degree to which an object is bent locally. He has thereby achieved breakthroughs in modern geometry, and his achievements continue to be developed in new directions, including analysis and algebra. In addition to his establishment of an entirely new geometry, Prof. Gromov has therefore had an immeasurable impact on all of the mathematical sciences.

88. Ockham's Razor - 08/03/1998: Group Theory It s called The french Mathematician and it s terrific. Tom. Tom PetsinisEvariste Galois was born in the 25th October, 1811 in Bourgla-Reine, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s10449.htm

Radio National with Robyn Williams on Sunday 08/03/1998 Group Theory Summary: Tom Petsinis has written a novel about the mathematical genius Evariste Galois, who helped invent Group Theory. Transcript: Robyn Williams : There have been some odd choices of subject for great literature: gloomy princes with parent problems in darkest Denmark; unrequited love on the Yorkshire Moors in midwinter; or how about this? The short life of an obscure Frenchman who helped invent Group Theory, a branch of maths that can curdle milk at twelve paces. Well Tom Petsinis has done it: written a superb novel about just such a mathematical genius. He remembered the name from a lecture way back at the University of Melbourne, and then, when himself teaching at the Victorian University of Technology, colleagues encouraged Tom to try his ambition, to put his science and his art together in the form of a story. It's called 'The French Mathematician' and it's terrific. Tom. Tom Petsinis : Evariste Galois was born in the 25th October, 1811 in Bourg-la-Reine, a town which at the time was just outside Paris. He was the second of three children born to Nicholas-Gabriel and Adelaide-Marie. His father, a liberal Republican, was Mayor of the town and owner of a private boarding school. Galois' early education was supervised by his mother, a devout Catholic. At the age of twelve he was sent to Paris to study at the College of Louis-le-Grand. He showed no particular talent in his first three years at school. Small for his age, with a tendency to play the fool, he was demoted. He enrolled in a course of mathematics (not a compulsory subject at the school) simply for the sake of doing something different. This was to prove the decisive event in his life. Within a few months he was reading the works of Lagrange and exploring advanced mathematics.

89. Encyclopedia: Fields-Medal Laurent Lafforgue (born November 6, 1966) is a french mathematician. Laurent Schwartz (5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a french mathematician. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Fields_Medal

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90. BSHM: Abstracts -- A instance where Darboux directly influenced a french mathematician in this way . The dominance of German puremathematical values in France of the http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/abstracts/A.html

The British Society for the History of Mathematics HOME About BSHM BSHM Council Join BSHM ... Search BSHM Abstracts A B C D ... Z These listings contain all abstracts that have appeared in BSHM Newsletters up to Newsletter 46. BSHM Abstracts - A Aaboe, A, and J. L. Berggren, ‘Didactical and other remarks on some theorems of Archimedes and infinitesimals’, Centaurus Theorems 17-20 of On the sphere and cylinder I are singularly opaque for students today, but look obvious when considered as results about clusters of elemental cones or pyramids with infinitestimal bases. Archimedes may also have looked at things in this way, which may have originated with Democritus. Abeles, Francine F., ‘Henry John Stephen Smith at Oxford’, Proceedings of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics In his outgoing presidential address to the London Mathematical Society in 1876, the Oxford Savilian professor Henry Smith (1826-1883) gave an almost Hilbertian overview of the state and prospects of pure mathematics, with a perceptive account of its recent history. Acerbi, F., 'Plato: Parmenides 149a7-c3: a proof by complete induction?'

91. Mathematician - Books, Journals, Articles @ The Questia Online Library THE french MATHEMATICIAN TOM PETSINIS THE french MATHEMATICIAN Walker and CompanyNew York Copyright Catalogingin-Publication Data Petsinis, Tom, http://www.questia.com/search/mathematician

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92. EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | Obituary: Ren¿ Thom Wideranging french mathematician whose creation of catastrophe theory paved theway for the more influential chaos theory Pearce Wright http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,839701,00.html

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93. The PNAS Way back then -- Mac Lane 94 (12): 5983 -- Proceedings Of The Nationa 430431) of the work of the famous french mathematician E. Cartan on theclassification of complex simple Lie algebras and also of their Cartan subalgebras. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/94/12/5983

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94. Biographical Notes french mathematician, born at Turin on 25.01., after reading a tract by Halley, french mathematician, born on 13.05. at Paris, where is father was a http://kr.cs.ait.ac.th/~radok/discaust/BIOS6.HTM

Willem de Vlaming 1697 commander of the three Dutch vessels Geelwink, Nyptang Wezel , ordered to search for survivors of the Dutch ship Ridderschap , missing from the time she left the Cape of Good Hope in 1684 or 1685. Henry Kater 1777-1835 English physicist of German origin, born at Bristol on 10.08., entered the army in 1794 to be stationed in India, where he rendered valuable assistance to the great trigonometrical survey. Failing health obliged him to return to England, where he entered the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. In 1814, he retired on half pay and devoted the remainder of his life to scientific research. He died at London on 26.04. Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst 1762-1834 born 22.05., member of parliament for Cirencester 1783, was Lord of the Admiralty from 1783 to 1789, Lord of the Treasury from 1789 to 1791, Commissioner of the Board of Control from 1791 to 1802. He held many other offices. He died 27.07. French Chemist, born at Paris on 13.06., obtained his doctor's diploma in 1780 after many financial difficulties. His lectures in chemistry at the college of the Jardin du Roi attained great popularity. He was a teacher rather than an original investigator and, under Napoleon, director general of instruction. He died on 16.12., the very day on which he was created a count of the French Empire. Edward Vernon 1684-1757 English admiral, born in Westminster on 12.11., sent to Westminster School at the age of seven, entered the navy in 1791, and from that time until 1707 took part in many expeditions in the Mediterranean and the West Indies. He took part in many actions as well as sat in parliament. The word "grog" is said to be derived from the nickname of "old Grog" given him by the sailors, because he wore a peculiar program boat-clock. He died suddenly at Nacton in Suffolk, on 30.10., and was buried in the church of the village.

95. AIM25: University College London: London Mathematical Society Archive french mathematician Hirst Thomas Archer 18301892 mathematician Victor Mayer Amédée 1831-1906 french mathematician x Mannheim Amédée http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=5031&inst_id=13

96. From Kpa@main.amu.edu.pl Sun Apr 20 223737 2003 Date Tue, 15 The french mathematician Henri Poincaré lived from 1854 to 1912. Russian ReportsHe Has Solved a Celebrated Math Problem By SARA ROBINSON A Russian http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~jg/poincare.txt

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97. CLIFHISTORY In 1981, I learned that a french mathematician, M. Riesz, (following the lead of But the french mathematician, Adrien Marie Legendre (17521833) had http://members.fortunecity.com/jonhays/clifhistory.htm

web hosting domain names photo sharing TRACING THE HISTORY OF "CLIFFORD ALGEBRA" In 1950, while majoring in physics at Columbia U., I read about Clifford Algebra in a book written by the British astronomer and "founder of astrophysics", Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944). (Eddington's South American observations of a solar eclipse provided the first confirmation of Albert Einstein's controversial General Theory of Relativity In his book, Eddington said, "I cannot believe that anything so ugly as multiplication of matrices is an essemtial part of the scheme of nature." (Mathematical physicist, N. Salingaros, says: "Eddington apparently defined the real Majorana [spinor] matrices (actually an equivalent set) before Majorana; he introduced the now standard g notation, and also the concept of chirality; he investigated the group structure of the Dirac algebra; and he defined the complex Clifford algebra over an eight-dimensional space which appears today in formulations of supersymmetry and supergravity.") However, it seemed that no Columbia math or physics prof could tell me anything about

98. Chibaf¤ÎÆüµ­ - Memo ¦Simeon Denis Poisson, a french mathematician, geometer and physicis.http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson ¦Hermann Weyl, a German mathematician http://d.hatena.ne.jp/chibaf/20050810

chibaf¤ÎÆüµ­ memo Methods of Numerical Simulation in Fluids and Plasmas by Antonius Otto http://what.gi.alaska.edu/ao/sim/ Hermann Hankel, a German mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hankel Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physician and physicist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz Erik Ivar Fredholm, a Swedish mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Fredholm Simeon Denis Poisson, a French mathematician, geometer and physicis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson Hermann Weyl, a German mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl Lie group, an analytic real or complex manifold that is also a group such that the group operations multiplication and inversion are analytic maps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_group Sophus Lie, a Norwegian-born mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophus_Lie G. H. Hardy, a prominent British mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy John Edensor Littlewood, a British mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edensor_Littlewood Srinivasa Ramanujan, a groundbreaking Indian mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

99. La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier De Varennes Et De --  Britannica Concise Encyclop La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de body frenchCanadian explorer . Brief biography of this 17th-century french mathematician. http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9369845

Home Browse Store Help Search Britannica Concise Again  Concise Encyclopedia Article Page 1 of 1 died Dec. 5, 1749, Montreal French-Canadian explorer. Hudson's Bay Co. Little appreciated in his lifetime, he was later considered one of the greatest explorers of the Canadian West. var mm = [["Jan.","January"],["Feb.","February"],["Mar.","March"],["Apr.","April"],["May","May"],["June","June"],["July","July"],["Aug.","August"],["Sept.","September"],["Oct.","October"],["Nov.","November"],["Dec.","December"]]; To cite this page: MLA style: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9369845 APA style: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia . Retrieved http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9369845 Britannica style: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9369845 Back to top More results on "La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de" when you join 30275 items Subscribe to unlock this content today! Featured Products from the Britannica Store Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled.

100. Laclos, Pierre Choderlos De --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your Gateway Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de body french writer. Pierre de Fermat Universityof St. Andrews Brief biography of this 17thcentury french mathematician. http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9369581

Home Browse Store Help Search Britannica Concise Again Concise Encyclopedia Article Page 1 of 1 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos born Oct. 18, 1741, Amiens, France died Nov. 5, 1803, Taranto, Parthenopean Republic French writer. He chose an army career but soon left it to become a writer. He is chiefly remembered for Dangerous Liasions (1782), one of the earliest psychological novels. The epistolary novel of a noble seducer and his female accomplice who take unscrupulous delight in their victims' misery, it caused an immediate sensation and was banned for years. Laclos later returned to the army and ultimately rose to the rank of general under Napoleon. His book retained its popularity into the 21st century, by which time it had been adapted several times, for film and for television. var mm = [["Jan.","January"],["Feb.","February"],["Mar.","March"],["Apr.","April"],["May","May"],["June","June"],["July","July"],["Aug.","August"],["Sept.","September"],["Oct.","October"],["Nov.","November"],["Dec.","December"]]; To cite this page: MLA style: "Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de."

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