41. Biograpy Of Germain The members of the Institute included Poisson, gaspard de prony, and Laplace.The Institution ignored the paper, but later found with de prony s papers in http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math/biograph/biogermn.htm

Back to the Table of Contents Biographies of Mathematicians - Germain Table of Contents: Introduction Biography Sophie Germain Primes Bibliography Introduction There were probably at the most only several women during the French Revolution that literally based their life on mathematics. One of these leading roles was played by a very young women (girl), by the name of Marie-Sophie Germain. Similar to many other great mathematicians, she faced countless difficulties, while contributing to various areas. Aside of all her great works, she was never quite given credit to and mostly because of one specific reason, she was a women. Germain contributed most of her work to the areas of number theory, acoustics and elasticity. Biography Marie-Sophie Germain was born on April 1, 1776 in Paris, France. Her father was a quite wealthy silk merchant by the name of Ambriose-Francois who was married to Marie-Madelaine Gruguelin. He later on became a director of the Bank of France and Sophie's home was frequently used as the meeting place for the community that was interested in liberal reforms. It was the death of Archimedes that inspired Germain to study mathematics.

42. The Human Computer And The Birth Of The Information Age A French civil engineer, gaspard de prony (1755–1839), borrowed Smith’s ideas toprepared nineteen volumes of trigonometric and logarithm tables for the http://www.philsoc.org/2001Spring/2132transcript.html

Joseph Henry Lecture May 11, 2001 The Human Computer and the Birth of the Information Age By David Alan Grier Director, University Honors Program, Associate Professor, Computer Science, The George Washington University [This text was prepared from the published version of the talk that appeared as Human Computers: the first pioneers of the information age Before computers were machines, they were people. They were men and women, young and old, well educated and common. They were the workers who convinced scientists that large-scale calculation had value. Long before Presper Eckert and John Mauchly built the ENIAC at the Moore School of Electronics or Maurice Wilkes designed the EDSAC for Manchester University, human computers had created the discipline of computation. They developed numerical methodologies and proved them on practical problems. These human computers were not savants, or calculating geniuses. Some knew little more than basic arithmetic. A few were near equals of the scientists they served and in a different time or place, they might have become practicing scientists had they not been barred from a scientific career by their class, their education, their gender or their ethnicity. Dividing the Labor: Computing the Return of Halley’s Comet The Computing Factories of the Nineteenth Century Professionalizing Human Computation Comrie was the tireless advocate for employing computing machinery. He had learned about machine computation from Karl Pearson while recuperating from war wounds. Once he had recovered, he enrolled in the graduate astronomy program at Cambridge University where he soon became an active critic of older computing methods used by such groups as the Greenwich Observatory. After completing his studies, he was appointed deputy superintendent of the British Nautical Almanac Office, where adapted commercial accounting machines to prepare almanac computations. He left the Almanac office in 1936 and formed an independent computing lab, the Scientific Computing Service.

43. Horse Power Testing gaspard de prony (17551839) and is called a prony Brake. The principle ofthe prony Brake is that an engine or motor is directly coupled to a drum that http://www.buckleyoldengineshow.org/HorsePower/horsepower.htm

Home Page Show Information Visit Show Now! Swap Meets ... E-Mail Us Testing Results from the 2002 Show HORSEPOWER TESTING The Prony Brake Horsepower testing is the mechanical measuring of the units of Power that an engine or machine is capable of producing. More specifically we are measuring Brake Horsepower - the effective horsepower or the amount of work that is produced at its final output. One method of doing this is by the use of a dynamometer. A dynamometer is a device that measures Force. In one common type of dynamometer, the force is measured by braking action. One of the first such dynamometers was developed by the French mathematician, Gaspard de Prony (1755-1839) and is called a Prony Brake. The principle of the Prony Brake is that an engine or motor is directly coupled to a drum that has a tensioned, friction belt around it. As the drum revolves, the frictional force is measured. Before we explain the operation of the Prony Brake any further, lets define Horsepower and understand the equations we will be using. Straight Line Horsepower Horsepower is a British unit for Power defined as the equivalent to the force needed to move 550 pounds, one foot, in one second or one pound, 550 feet, in one second.

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45. Monge, Gaspard, Comte De Peluse --  Encyclopædia Britannica gaspard Clair Franois Marie Riche de prony University of St.Andrews, ScotlandBiographical sketch of this French mathematician who worked on mathematical http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9053349

Home Browse Newsletters Store ... Subscribe Already a member? Log in Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Additional Reading Print this Table of Contents Shopping Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) Price: USD $15.95 The Scrabble player's bible on sale! Save 30%. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Price: USD $19.95 Save big on America's best-selling dictionary. Discounted 38%! More Britannica products  Encyclopædia Britannica Article Page 1 of 2 born May 10, 1746, Beaune, France died July 28, 1818, Paris French mathematician who invented descriptive geometry , the study of the mathematical principles of representing three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional plane; no longer an active discipline in mathematics, the subject is part of mechanical and architectural drawing. He was a prominent figure during the (75 of 993 words) 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"]];

46. Scientific Identity: Portraits From The Dibner Library Of The History Of Science Scientist, prony, gaspardFran§ois-Clair-Marie Riche, Baron de (1755 - 1839) Portrait of gaspard-Fran§ois-Clair-Marie Riche, Baron de prony http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/hst/scientific-identity/CF/display_resu

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48. Marie De Paris - Paris AG Continue Reading). prony Brake Dynamometer gaspard de prony invented the pronybrake .(Continue Reading). Visite de jumelage - Burnley/Vitry-sur-Seine http://paris.abcgiant.com/marie-de-paris.html

49. Charles Babbage gaspard de prony will influence his later work on the de. 1820. Cofounder of theAstronomical Society, Formulated the general idea of the Difference Engine http://www.thocp.net/biographies/babbage_charles.html

Charles Babbage December 26, 1791 Teignmouth, Devonshire, UK October 18, 1871, London, UK Charles Babbage principal papers see main text hardware difference machine software keyords difference engine analytical engine see also related subjects Ada Lovelace, Difference Engine, Analytical engine, Science Museum London Achievement Charles Babbage designs the Difference Engine but the machine will never be realized. He also start plans for the Analytical engine. But it will be his son that realizes the project in part. Biography Charles Babbage was born in London on December 26, 1792 , the son of Benjamin Babbage, a London banker. As a youth Babbage was his own instructor in algebra, of which he was passionately fond, and was well-read in the continental mathematics of his day. Upon entering Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1811, he found himself far in advance of his tutors in mathematics. With Herschel, Peacock, and others, Babbage founded the Analytical Society for promoting continental mathematics and, reforming the mathematics of Newton, then taught at the university.

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51. History Of Astronomy: Persons (P) prony, gaspard Clair Francois Marie Riche de (17551839). Short biography andreferences (MacTutor Hist. Math.) Prosperin, Erik (1739-1803) http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_p.html

History of Astronomy Persons History of Astronomy: Persons (P) Paczynski, Bohdan (b. 1940) Short biography, references and links (Bruce medal.) Page, Thornton L. (1913-1996) Short biography and archival sources Very short biography (infoplease.com) Palisa, Johann (1848-1925) Very short biography and reference (Or see German version Palitzsch, Johann Georg (1723-1788) Very short biography (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove) Heimat- und Palitzsch-Museum , Dresden (in German) Palmieri, Luigi (1807-1896) Short biography and references From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 Paracelsus [Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (ca. 1493 - 1541) Biographical data and references Short biography and references (Or see German version Bibliography Parent, Antoine (1666-1716) Biographical data and references Parise, Ronald A. (b. 1951) Biographical data Parker, Eugene Newman (b. 1927) Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.) Parker, Louis (b. 1906)

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53. ORCS Discussion List: SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest V3 #43 de prony, Baron (gaspard Riche), a very, very long title in French, J. Ec.Polytech., vol. 1, cahier 22, pp. 2476, 1795. http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/ORCS/JUN1700/0246.html

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54. Science, Civilization And Society for Napoleon s property tax was organized by Baron gaspard de prony in 1790.de prony had read Adam Smith s Wealth of Nations and seen its description http://www.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/science society/lectures/illustrations/lec

55. Bokklubben A Career Biography of gaspard Clair Francois Marie Riche de prony, Bridgebuilder, It describes the life and work of gaspard de prony and presents http://www.mao.no/SamboWeb/emneliste.do?emnekode=15.6

56. The Otherpower.com Discussion Board || Bob G and you will find that the prony brake was invented by gaspard de prony. Bob was correct when he used prony and in spite of your misuse in your http://www.fieldlines.com/story/2003/4/9/3233/89343

Front Page [Homebrewed Electricity (wind) (solar) ... bob g By bob g , Section Diaries Posted on Wed Apr 9th, 2003 at 03:23:03 AM MST live in washington state, in the process of buying a parcel of land in kansas in a catagory 5 wind area, property has an excellent ridge with predominant south wind in summer and north in winter.. will build an off grid small home/shop/greenhouse to live the rest of my life in... at least now i have time to apply what i have learned and design a structure that works with nature instead of against it, cool concept huh, wish i would have done it years ago.. will incorporate wind power, diesel generation, hydro on a limited scale, and will use the utility company as a back up scheme only.. i figure it is easier to conserve or limit my needs for power than it is to either generate or purchase my power, so to those ends the design will incorporate everything i can to limit my needs, but still have most of what modern living dictates. bob g comments (9 topical, editorial) Glad you're back!

57. Early Termination In Sparse Interpolation Algorithms J. de l École Polytechnique 1, 2476, R. prony is gaspard (-Clair-François-Marie)Riche, baron de prony. 25 JT Schwartz, Fast Probabilistic Algorithms for http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=946120

58. American Scientist Online - The Calculus Of Passion Inspired by gaspard Riche de prony s use of outof-work hairdressers as humancalculator elements to produce numerical tables for the newly established http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/14375

Home Current Issue Archives Bookshelf ... Subscribe In This Section Reviewed in This Issue Book Reviews by Issue New Books Received Publishers' Directory ... Virtual Bookshelf Archive Site Search Advanced Search Visitor Login Username Password Help with login Forgot your password? Change your username see list of all reviews from this issue: July-August 2001 HISTORY The Calculus of Passion Thomas A. Trainor The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter . Benjamin Woolley. xii + 416 pp. McGraw-Hill, first published in the United Kingdom by Macmillan in 1999. $27.95. The Bride of Science Benjamin Woolley describes a multidimensional woman whose suffering, creativity, frustration and triumph intrigue us. The first third of this book describes Ada's bizarre family background, which is the key to her complex story. Her parents' character differences constituted a vast Apollonian–Dionysian rift: George Gordon Byron, who led a sensationally romantic life as a "Regency libertine," personified the existential defiance of the fire-giving Titan Prometheus, whereas Anne Isabella ("Annabella") Milbanke was in the vanguard of Victorian priggishness, hypocrisy and entitlement. She suppressed her own considerable passions behind a facade of intellectualism, morality and amateur mathematics, and Byron dubbed her "the Princess of Parallelograms."

59. American Mathematical Monthly, The: Ecole Polytechnique, 1794-1850: Differences (17361813) and of mechanics gaspard Riche de prony (1755-1843)-a stark descriptive and differential geometry was in the hands of gaspard Monge http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3742/is_200503/ai_n13247956

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60. Gaspard De Prony Université Montpellier II gaspard Monge gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis gaspard deprony (1755-1839). Cette image et la biographie complète en anglais http://ens.math.univ-montp2.fr/SPIP/article.php3?id_article=1037

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