Title: 17th century of Mathematics
117th century of Mathematics
2- It is impossible to say with truth that this
century or that is the greatest in development of
any human interest, but it is entirely within the
range of truth to assert that few if any century
did so much for mathematicians as that one wich
saw - Fermat being the modern theory of noumbers
- Descartes and Harriot, invent the analytic
geometry - Cavalieri paved the way for Newton and Leibniz,
who, in their turn established the calculus - Pascal and Desargues open new fields for pure
geometry - Napier reveal to the world a new method of
computation - And many other brilliant scolars applied the
theory developed to study of curves, to difficult
problems, and to study the science of celestial
mechanics. - Printing started to show its power because people
in general started to think, and scolars could
spread their knowledge not only to people who
heard them as before. - And what is most horrible discoveries of this
century were used three houndret years later in
the great World War.
3Mathematics began to expand into new areas
4Blaise Pascal(1623 - 1662)
- was a French mathematician, physicist, and
religious philosopher - he made important contributions to the
construction of mechanical calculators - 1654 he laid down the principles of the theory of
probabilities, strongly influencing the
development of modern economics and social
science
5Pascal triangle
6Fibonacci SequenceTry this make a pattern by
going up and then along, then add up the squares
(as illustrated) ... you will get the Fibonacci
Sequence. (The Fibonacci Sequence is made by
adding the two previous numbers, for example
358, then 5813, etc)
Horizontal Sums What do you notice about the
horizontal sums? It doubles each time (powers
of 2).
7GameblingTwo players of equal skill want to
leave the table before finishing their game. In
what proportion they should divide the stakes?
- Pascaline
- 1642 Pascals calculator
- The Musee des Arts et Metiers in Paris
- Zwinger museum in Dresden
8Pierre de Fermat ( 1601 1665)
- was a French lawyer and a mathematician who is
given credit for early developments that led to
modern calculus - he is recognized for his discovery of an original
method of finding the greatest and the smallest
ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to
that of the then unknown differential calculus - theory of numbers
- Independently of Descartes, he discovered the
fundamental principles of analytic geometry. - With Blaise Pascal, he was a founder of the
theory of probability.
9Fermats Last Theoremthe most famous solved
problem in the history of mathematics
- If an integer n is greater than 2, then the
equation - has no solutions in non-zero integers x, y, and
z. - 1640, Fermat wrote in the margin in his copy of
the Arithmetica - 1995, correct proof was finally published by
Andrew Wiles -
10Ren? Decartes (1596.1650.)
- modern philosophy and modern
- mathematics
- - he studied classics, logic and traditional
Aristotelian philosophy at the Jesuit college of
La Flèche in Anjou. He also learnt mathematics. - in Paris he cultivate the study of geometry
- lived and worked all over the world
- focused on philosophy
- He attempted to justify certain basic beliefs
about human beings, the world, and God using a
technique of systematic doubt that he invented. - He developed the first modern theory that mind
and body are essentially different substances, a
distinction that has occupied philosophers
11- Descartess Geometry
- a small handbook of only about a hundred
pages, that analytic geometry first appeared
in print - the fundamental idea in Descartess mind was the
elucidating of algebra by means of geometric
intuition and concepts - He began by extending the ancient idea of
latitude and longitudeÂ
12Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598 . 1647.)
- Jesuit, professor of mathematics at the
- University of Bologna
- wrote on conics, trigonometry, optics,
- astronomy and astrology
- recognized the great value of logarithms
- his greatest contribution was his principle of
indivisibles
13- Cavalieris principle
- -Bonaventura Cavalieri observed that
- figures (solids) of equalheight and
- in which all corresponding cross
- Sections match in length (area)
- are of equal area (volume).
- For example, take a regular polygon equal in area
to an equilateral triangle erect a pyramid on
the triangle and a conelike figure of the same
height on the polygon cross sections of both
figures taken at the same height above the bases
are equal therefore, by Cavalieris theorem, so
are the volumes of the solids.
14Guillaume de LHospital (1661.-1704.)
- he wrote on geometry, algebra, mechanics
- solved a difficult problem about cycloids posed
by Pascal - published the first book ever on differential
carculus - In this book, l'Hospital included L Hospitals
rule - Â
15Isaac Newton
- Newton and Leibniz developed infinitesimal
calculus independently, using their own unique
notations. - generalised binomial theorem,
- discovered Newton's identities, Newton's method,
- contributions to the theory of finite
differences.
16Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von Leibniz
- Leibniz is credited, along with Isaac Newton,
with the discovery of infinitesimal calculus. - He was in a dispute with Newton about
- He had a trial with Newton for infinitesimal
calculus He introduced several notations used to
this day - integral sign ? representing an elongated S, from
the Latin word summa, - d used for differentials, from the Latin word
differentia.
17Newton-Leibnitzs formula
18Connection between mathematics and physics
19Daniel Bernoulli
- -was s Dutch-Swiss mathematician and was one of
mathematicians in the Bernoulli family - -he is particulary remembered for his
applications of mathematics to mehanics,
especially fluid mehanics - -Bernoullis principle is named after Bernoulli
published his principle in his book Hydrodinamica - -Bernoullis principle can be applied to various
types of fluid flow, resulting in what is loosely
denoted as Bernoullis equation
20Johannes Kepler
21- was a German mathematician, astronomer and
astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century
Scientific revolution - Keplers laws of planetary motion are three
mathematicial laws that describe the motion of
planets in the Solar System - his book A New Astronomy including the first
two laws of planetary motion
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23Galileo Galilej
24- Was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist and
philosopher who played a major role in the
Scientific Revolution - - Galileo produced one piece of original and even
prophetic work in mathematics Galileos paradox
which shows that there are as many perfect
squares as there are whole numbers, even though
most numbers are not perfect squares
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26- Made by
- Ana Cenkovcan
- Anita Jukic
- Željka Kraljic
- Antun Mikolaševic
- Dino Dušanic
27Have a nice dream