An Episodic History of Mathematics potx
An Episodic History of Mathematics potx
... 1.3.
Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem:
Observe that we have four right triangles and a square packed into a
larger square. Each triangle has legs a and b, and we take it that b>a.
Of course, ... we calculate that
c
2
= (area of large square)
= (area of triangle) + (area of triangle) +
(area of triangle) + (area of triangle) +
(area of small square)
=
1
2
· ab +
1
2
· ab +
1...
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 potx
... effaced
memorandum in the Book of Leinster, which he reads thus: "[Ernín, son of] Duach [that is], son of the King
of Connacht, an Ollamh, and a prophet, and a professor in history, and a professor ... other, and afterwards with the Firbolgs
and Tuatha Dé Danann of Erinn,[17] and subsequently with the Milesians. Flann synchronizes the chiefs of
various lines of the childr...
AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH POOR LAW 1750-1850 pptx
... countries during the 1960s and 1970s. Further evidence of labor
mobility, and of the importance of London as a destination of rural
southern migrants, is provided by Deane and Cole (1967: 106-15), ... explana-
tions for the widespread adoption of outdoor relief policies in the 1770s
and 1780s and for the significant differences in the administration of
relief between the southeast...
The Social History of Smoking potx
... shortnesse of winde, and fetche their breath thicke
or often, and do [sic] breake without daunger the impostems of the breast." The leaves of coltsfoot and of
other plants have often been ... use it yet had plenty of enemies. It was extravagantly abused and
extravagantly praised. Robert Burton, of "Anatomy of Melancholy" fame, like many other writers of his time...
The history of mathematics
... Gillian Butler and
Freda McManus
PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer
THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion
QUANTUM THEORY
John Polkinghorne
RACISM Ali Rattansi
THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy
REALITY Jan Westerhoff
THE ... book can do only a little to redress the masculine bias of most depictions of the history of
mathematics; it can, however, pay more than lip service to the mathematics of contine...
Froude''''s History of England potx
... people of England; his vast
schemes for education; his still vaster schemes for breaking the alliance with Spain, and uniting France and
England as fellow-servants of the Pope, and twin-pillars of ... the
said high and great fruits and effects thereof insured to the surety and commodity and tranquillity of this
realm of our mind and consent, do freely, absolutely, give and grant to...
A History of China potx
... land of his fief, as far as he and his clan actually used it, as "clan" land;
parts of this land he gave to members of his own branch-clan for their use without transferring rights of
property, ... south
Shansi, east Shensi, parts of Kiangsu and Anhui. We can only roughly estimate the size of the population of
the Shang state. Late texts say that at the time of the a...
Tài liệu AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPE PART 1 pptx
... years,—the explanation of how the Roman Empire of
the West and the wild and unknown districts inhabited by the German races have
become the Europe of Gladstone and Bismarck, of Darwin and Pasteur. ... "man" of the Archbishop of Rheims. He was also the vassal of
the Archbishop of Sens, of four other neighboring bishops, and of the abbot of the
great monaster...
Tài liệu Mathematics and Its History, Third Edition potx
... rational triangle splits
into two rational right-angled triangles. It follows from the parameteriza-
tion of rational right-angled triangles, which was known to Brahmagupta.
Proof.Forany triangle with ... Brˆahma-sphut
.
a-siddhˆanta of 628 ce.
In particular, he found the following complete description of rational trian-
gles.
Parameterization of rational triangles. A triangle with ra...
THE LANGHAM SERIES AN ILLUSTRATED COLLECTION OF ART MONOGRAPHS EDITED potx
... great uprising of Puritan England,—the struggle for civil
and political liberty, and its achievement,—the Ironsides of Cromwell with Bible and
uplifted sword. That intensity of moral and spiritual ... indeed, one of the unconscious ironies of art history that
the artist, whose work shows least of its influence or attraction, should have devoted
the one offspring of his pen...