Everyday Math

     Everybody uses math in everyday life whether you know it or not. Do you have a smartphone? What about an tablet or other device? To be able to know how many coins you earn or how much of a higher (or lower) score you have than everyone else or yourself. That is math. Maybe you don't do trigonometry problems on a daily basis but common math is all around us.

     If you like to cook or bake, to make enough servings for a group of people takes multiplication and/or addition. 

     Organizing may be your thing and you probably measure things to make sure they fit into a certain amount of space. A desk may only have 9 inches of space to fit your items in. 3 textbooks that are 2 inches wide each, will only give you 3 inches for your notebooks or other supplies.

     You may tell your mom that you are almost out of milk and need her to get more at the store. Maybe you round the amount of milk to about ¼ of a carton left. You are using math.

     Even something a simple a planning a sleepover with a few friends uses math. How many people will be there? What time do we need to be there? What time will we go home the next morning? How many hours do we have to hangout? See even the simplest things involve math in some ways.

Sources:http://www.mathworksheetscenter.com/mathtips/everydaymath.html

http://www.learner.org/interactives/dailymath/

http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/use-mathematics-everyday-life-14225.html

John Von Neumann

     In 1903, Budapest had a new member of the population. John von Neumann was an inventor and mathematician who was born into a hungarian family. Max and Margaret von Neumann were his parents. John Von Neumann was the oldest of 3 children in the Von Neumann family.

     John Von Neumann was known for his amazing creativity and mathematics. He went into a career as a professional mathematician. Part of his job was to create papers that reviewed his own theories about mathematics. After he wrote and released them, Von Neumann would show other mathematicians his work.

     In his later life he got awarded the Bócher Memorial Prize and the Enrico Fermi Award. He was diagnosed with bone cancer and 18 months later he, sadly, passed away. Although he isn’t alive today, his legacy lives on.

Number Theories

If you want to learn about number theories, click this link: HERE

Einstein

    Albert Einstein was born on March 14,1879, in Ulm, Germany. In his early years in education, he was a poor student, and many teachers thought he was retarded. He had many speech problems when he was nine years old. But many teachers didn't know that Albert was fascinated by the wondrous and confusing world around him. However, like many kids, he disliked school and ended his secondary education at age sixteen. He had gotten himself expelled by his bad attitude, and found a way to quit school without hurting his chances for university. He mastered many things, including calculus, the measurement of irregular shapes, and the form of math used to solve problems involving physics and engineering. However, Einstein quickly became infamous by his mathematical expression e=mc 2 because it was used to set off a bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan. Albert Einstein died in Princeton,1955.

Pythagoras

                                       

                 Pythagoras, (A.K.A Pythagoras of Samos) , was a renowned Greek mathematician, mostly known for his invention of the Pythagorean Theorem, which consists of a square + b square = c square, indicating that two expressions equal a answer, also called a expression. The Pythagorean Theorem is well known through all of school, through all the grades, from the simple 2+2=4, to complicated geometry problems that even I can't solve . Pythagoras was an important mathematician, and contributed many important things to the world of math.

Cheryl Elisabeth Praeger

Cheyl Elisabeth Praeger was born on September 7, 1948 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. She hasn't died yet which would make her 67.
Praeger's parents were named Eric and Queenie. They both had to leave school to earn their living. They didn't have a chance on participating in a higher education.
After leaving her school she enrolled in the Universety of Queensland, and got her B.Sc degree in 1969.                                                                                  2
Praeger studied the functional equation x (n+1)- x (n)= x   (n) + x(x(n) and x is an integer valued function of the integer variable, n, and found three parameter family of solutions.

My sources are here and here and here

A to Z Math

Here is my A to Z Math presentation.
Here is the resourse I used. (HERE)

Archimedes

Archimedes

  Archimedes is universally known to be the greatest of ancient mathematicians. He studied at Euclid's school, but his work far surpassed than the works of Euclid. For example, some of Euclid's more difficult theorems are easy analytic consequences of Archimedes' Lemma of Centroids. His achievements are particularly impressive given the lack of good mathematical notation in his day. His proofs are noted not only for brilliance but for unequaled clarity, with a modern biographer describing Archimedes' treatises as "without exception monuments of mathematical exposition . so impressive in their perfection as to create a feeling akin to awe in the mind of the reader." Archimedes made advances in number theory, algebra, and analysis, but is most renowned for his many theorems of plane and solid geometry. He was first to prove Heron's formula for the area of a triangle. His excellent approximation to √3 indicates that he'd partially anticipated the method of continued fractions. One of his most remarkable and famous geometric results was determining the area of a parabolic section, for which he offered two independent proofs, one using his Principle of the Lever, the other using a geometric series. Some of Archimedes' work survives only because Thabit ibn Qurra translated the otherwise-lost Book of Lemmas; it contains the angle-trisection method and several ingenious theorems about inscribed circles. Thabit shows how to construct a regular heptagon; it may not be clear whether this came from Archimedes, or was fashioned by Thabit by studying Archimedes' angle-trisection method. Other discoveries known only second-hand include theArchimedean semiregular solids reported by Pappus, and the Broken-Chord Theorem reported by Alberuni.

               Sources:
http://fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html

http://www.math.com/students/mathematicians.html

Math handwriting recognition software- Impressive

Khan academy has made a new handwriting recognition software that can read and understand handwriting using programming. The software was released as a mobile app. The new version adds more personalized lesson plans, including 150,000 lessons that are aligned to the national Common Core educational standards. It can automatically identify long equations (and is even able to manipulate and erase them easily), which was designed in partnership with handwriting recognition company, MyScript. It is also possible to put math equations into a computer. Academic papers are submitted in electronic form, though mostly for publishing.

As of now, the equations are mostly for early high school. But it’s easy to see how they extend to all sorts of advanced math in the near future.

Sources:

http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/20/khan-academys-new-math-handwriting-recognition-software-is-impressive-video/

Plato

Plato was a Greek mathematician and philosopher born in Athens somewhere in between 429 and 423 BC. He was also one of ancient Greece’s most important patrons of mathematics.  Inspired by Pythagoras, he founded his Academy in Athens in 387 BC, where he stressed mathematics as a way of understanding more about reality. In his academy, some of the questions he asked his students were

the Three Classical Problems(“squaring the circle”, “doubling the cube” and “trisecting the angle”) and to some extent these problems have become identified with Plato, although he was not the first to pose them. 








He was best known for his identification of 5 regular symmetrical 3-dimensional shapes. The 5 3-dimensional shapes were called the Platonic Solids which contained the tetrahedron (constructed of 4 regular triangles), the octahedron (composed of 8 triangles), the icosahedron (composed of 20 triangles), the cube (composed of 6 squares), and the dodecahedron (made up of 12 pentagons) .

Plato was a very successful mathematician and philosopher. He was also a pioneer of education in mathematics.

Sources:
www.storyofmathematics.com/greek_plato.html

www.famous-mathematicians.com/plato/

planetmath.org/platosmathematics