Table of contents :
Cover
Half title
Imprint
Contents
Preface
Part I: The Moving Image of Eternity
1. When Einstein Walked with Gödel
2. Time—the Grand Illusion?
Part II: Numbers in the Brain, in Platonic Heaven, and in Society
3. Numbers Guy: The Neuroscience of Math
4. The Riemann Zeta Conjecture and the Laughter of the Primes
5. Sir Francis Galton, the Father of Statistics and Eugenics
Part III: Mathematics, Pure and Impure
6. A Mathematical Romance
7. The Avatars of Higher Mathematics
8. Benoit Mandelbrot and the upptäckt of Fractals
Part IV: Higher Dimensions, sammanfattning Maps
9. Geometrical Creatures
A Comedy of Colors
Part V: Infinity, Large and Small
Infinite Visions: Georg Cantor v. David Foster Wallace
Worshipping Infinity: Why the Russians Do and the French Dont
The Dangerous Idea of the Infinitesimal
Part VI: Heroism, Tragedy, and the Computer Age
The Ada Perplex: Was •
Blasie Pascal Contributions to Mathematics
1. Life And Contribution to Mathematics 2. Blaise Pascal Biography Born in in Clermont, France, Blaise Pascal is one of the most well known mathematicians of all times. 3. Blaise Pascal Biography His mother, died when he was only three, leaving his father to raise the sickly Blaise and his two sisters. He was educated by his father 4. Blaise Pascal Biography Pascal's interest in math began with the curiosity about this subject which he was not taught. To his many questions about math, his father replied with vague answers. He told his son that math ``was the way of making precise figures and finding the proportions among them.'' Pascal took this statement and began to make his own discoveries about math. 5. Blaise Pascal BiographyAt the young age of twelve, he was drawing geometric figures on the floor of his playroom and it is said that he discovered, on his own, the fact that the interior angles of a trian •
Blaise Pascal Biography
2. Subject Related: Fluid Mechanics-I Presented By: Mujahid Hussain Regn. No. AUICFL-BECE Presented To: Dr. Salik Javaid ISLAMABAD CAMPUS (DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING) 3. HISTORY & ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE FAMOUS SCIENTIST “BLAISE PASCAL” TOPIC:- 4. (“BLAISE PASCAL”) 5. Field Specialization: ■ Mathematician ■ Scientist ■ Philosopher ■ Physicist ■ Theologian 6. An-Overview ■ 19 June – 19 August , was a French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer and Christian Philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method. ■ In , while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines. After three ye