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Articles with tag: mathematics

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mohammad Gill   Jun 15, 2007   interacts: 140

It is said that Archimedes knew all the mathematics that was developed up to his time and some more. The same is said of Newton and Carl Gauss.

Johannes Kepler – A Mysterious Cosmographist

Mohammad Gill   Mar 23, 2007   interacts: 70

He lived his life in poverty and misery but he immortalized himself by formulating his three laws of cosmology. He was a humble person who said, “there was nothing I could state that I could not also contradict.”

Finally, I Am Becoming Stupider No More

Abdur Rehman Mustafa   Mar 3, 2006   interacts: 14

What made Paul Erdos the man he was? Who would, in his right state of mind, give up all worldly pleasures and even necessities to pursue an almost fictitious life of chasing numbers?

Mathematics for All University Students

Q Isa Daudpota   Sep 16, 2004   interacts: 11

The role of mathematics in science, and society generally, is misunderstood by common folk. Such lack of understanding is also prevalent in educational policy makers

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