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Georg Cantor: Biography & Mathematic Infinity

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 7, 2011Leave a comment

Georg Cantor founded set theory and introduced the concept of infinite numbers with his discovery of cardinal numbers. He also advanced the study of trigonometric series and was the first to prove the nondenumerability of the real numbers. Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 3, 1845. His family…

Fibonacci Numbers: Sequence & Book

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The Fibonacci numbers were first discovered by a man named Leonardo Pisano. He was known by his nickname, Fibonacci. The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence in which each term is the sum of the 2 numbers preceding it. The first 10 Fibonacci numbers are: (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89).…

Euclidean Geometry: Math & History

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 7, 20112 Comments

Geometry was thoroughly organized in about 300 BC, when the Greek mathematician Euclid gathered what was known at the time, added original work of his own, and arranged 465 propositions into 13 books, called ‘Elements’. The books covered not only plane and solid geometry but also much of what is now known as algebra, trigonometry,…

Blaise Pascal: Biography & Mathematician

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 7, 2011Leave a comment

Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont, Auvergne, France on June 19, 1628. He was the son of Étienne Pascal, his father, and Antoinette Bégone, his mother who died when Blaise was only four years old. After her death, his only family was his father and his two sisters, Gilberte, and Jacqueline, both of whom played…

Apollonius of Perga: Biography & Mathematician

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 7, 20111 Comment

Apollonius was a great mathematician, known by his contempories as “The Great Geometer, “whose treatise Conics is one of the greatest scientific works from the ancient world. Most of his other treatises were lost, although their titles and a general indication of their contents were passed on by later writers, especially Pappus of Alexandria. As…

Ancient Mathematics: Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 7, 2011Leave a comment

Ancient knowledge of the sciences was often wrong and wholly unsatisfactory by modern standards.  However, not all of the knowledge of the more learned peoples of the past was false.  In fact, without people like Euclid or Plato, we may not have been as advanced in this age as we are.  Mathematics is an adventure…

Carl Friedrich Gauss: Biography & Mathematics

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 7, 2011Leave a comment

Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855).  The German scientist and mathematician Gauss is frequently he was called the founder of modern mathematics.  His work is astronomy and physics is nearly as significant as that in mathematics. Gauss was born on April 30, 1777 in Brunswick (now it is Western Germany).  Many biographists think that he got his…

Robert Boyle: Biography & Contributions

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 5, 2011Leave a comment

Robert Boyle is considered both the founder of modern chemistry and the greatest English scientist to live during the first thirty years of the existence of the Royal Society.  He was not only a chemist and a physicist as we know him to be, but also an avid theologian, a philanthropist, an essayist, and a…

Genetic Diversity & Techniques in Agriculture

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 1, 2011Leave a comment

Genetic variation is the raw material for the plant breeder, who must often select from primitive and wild plants, including wild species, in search of new genes.  The appearance of new diseases, new pests, or new virulent forms of disease causing organisms makes it imperative that the plant be preserved, because it offers a potential…

Apollo 13: Mission & Overview

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

Houston, we have a problem. The Apollo 13 mission was launched at 2:13 p.m. EST, April 11, 1970 from launch complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The space vehicle crew consisted of James A. Lovell, Jr. commander, John L. Swigert, Jr., command module pilot and Fred W.  Haise, Jr. lunar module pilot. The Apollo 13…

Theseus and the Minotaur: Myth & Summary

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 20114 Comments

In Greek mythology, Theseus can truly be thought of as the greatest Athenian hero. He was the son of Aegeus, king of Athens, and Aethra, princess of Troezen, and daughter of Pittheus, king of Troezen. Before Theseus was born his father Aegeus left Aethra in Troezen of Argolis and returned to Athens before he was…

The Riddle of the Sphinx

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

The study of myths probably began in the 4th century. BC. when Euthemerus explained them as exaggerated adventures of historical individuals. The allegorical interpretation of myths , stemming from the 18th century study , says that at one time myths were invented by wise men to point out a truth, but after a time myths…

Death of Balder: Myth & Summary

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 20111 Comment

The god of light, joy, purity, beauty, innocence, and reconciliation. Son of Odin and Frigg. He was loved by both gods and man and was considered to be the best of the gods. He had a good character, was friendly, wise and eloquent, although he had little power. His wife is Nanna, daughter of Nep,…

Aristophanes’ The Birds: Summary

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

Two humans, Euelpides and Pisthetaerus, set out with a jay and crow to find Epops. They discuss with Epops how the birds are mightier than the humans and gods and should build their great city. Epops then calls some birds around and they all come. At first, they thought some trespassers had come so they…

John Neihardt’s Black Elk Speaks: Summary & Review

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

The book Black Elk Speaks was written in the early 1930’s by author John G. Neihardt, after interviewing the medicine man named Black Elk. Neihardt was already a published writer, and prior to this particular narrative, he was at work publishing a collection of poems titled Cycle of the West. Although he was initially seeking…

Aeschylus’ Oresteia: Light & Dark Imagery

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

Aeschylus’ use of darkness and light as a consistent image in the Oresteia depicts a progression from evil to goodness, disorder to order. In the Oresteia, there exists a situation among mortals which has gotten out of control; a cycle of death has arisen in the house of Atreus. There also exists a divine disorder…

Euripides’ Medea: Revenge & Summary

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

Medea, a play by the Greek playwright Euripides, explores the Greek-barbarian dichotomy through the character of Medea, a princess from the “barbarian”, or non-Greek, land of Colchis. Throughout the play, it becomes evident to the reader that Medea is no ordinary woman by Greek standards. Central to the whole plot is Medea’s barbarian origins and…

Mayan Creation Myth

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

The Mayans believe that Mother Earth was a gigantic monster. It was an alligator, toad, and a turtle combined. Above her was a sky with a layer for each planet and spheres of movement for the sun and the moon. Below her was the underworld where heavenly bodies passed when out of sight. All around…

Cyclops: Myth & Overview

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

The Cyclops were unique and unusual mythical people. They had very interesting lives. They had an unusual beginning and they had an unusual lifestyle. Also, the Cyclops appeared to be completely different when described by opposing viewpoints. Overall, the Cyclops were an unconventional race in mythical legends. The Cyclops had an intriguing origin. They were…

Dionysus & Semele: Myth & Summary

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

Semele was the daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, king and queen of Thebes, and the mother of Dionysus, the god of wine. Zeus fell madly in love with her and made an oath to do anything that she asked. Hera, the jealous wife of Zeus, realized Zeus was in love with Semele and tricked Semele…

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