Greatest Mathematicians IN History

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Greatest MathematiciansIN History

• By Mark Clemons

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François Viète

• 1540-1603
• Was a French nobleman
• He work for King Arthur IV
• He broke the spanish code allowing french to read
  it and end the Huguenot War of Religion

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• He discover a formula called prosthaphaeresis
• He is called the Father of Modern Algebra because
  of his use of decimal notation and variable
  letters

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• He was born in fortenay poitou, which is now
  called vendee, France
• He died in what is now called the city of Paris,
  France
• He decided in 1564 to take a position in a
  service that is called the Antoinette
  dAubeterre.
• In this time it was a period of great political
  and religious unrest in France.

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• His first work apeared in paris in 1571.
• Even he himself was able to present methods for
  solving equations of second, third, and even to
  the fourth degree.

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Isaac (Sir) Newton

• 1642-1727
• From England
• He got famous from his 3 laws of motion- inertia,
  force, and reciprocal action
• He is also called the Father of Calculus

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• He is also famous for calculus,and optics
• In 1687 he published his first book Principia
  Mathematics
• He was depressed because his mother kept pulling
  him out of school so he could become a farmer

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• He lived with his grand parents at the age of 12
  he was reunited with his mother
• He attend a school called Grantham, a town in
  Lincolnshire

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• After attending the school Cambridge he was force
  out of the university in 1655 because of the
  great plague that accrued in Cambridge
• Legend has it in 1687 he experience the falling
  apple that help him explain gravity pull

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• When the plague past Cambridge newton attend
  Cambridge in 1667 where he got his degree in arts
• when newton became try to show his discovers he
  made in optic Hooke's question his discovers and
  from there on out newton and Hooke would have a
  major impact in the world

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Emmy Noether

• She was a professor at Erlangen
• She studied many different languages English,
  French, and German
• She went to study mathematic at the University of
  Erlangen during 1900 to 1902.

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• She work on ideal theory producing abstract
  theory which help develop ring theory
• Her reputation grew as she progress threw her
  work
• She had her first piece of work when she arrived
  in Gottingen

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• Her work led to formulations to Einstein work
• She helped edit the, Mathematische Annalen
• She was Jewish so her mathematic accomplishments
  didnt matter because the Nazi took over in 1933

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• She is also known as Amalie Noether, Emily
  Noether, Amelie Noether
• She was born in Germany
• She came from a very wealth family
• She had a career in teaching French and English
  she change her mind later and became a
  mathematicians

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• She went had to get permistion to attend two
  university (Erlangen, and Gottingen) which
  wouldnt let any women attend classes for credit.
• This change later in 1904
• In 1908 she attend Circolo Matematico di Palermo

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