Transcript Famous Mathematician - MATHS-S12

Blaise Pascal
Contents slide
Slide 1 where and when he was born
Slide 2 Education available at the time
Slide 3 his discoveries and inventions
Slide 5 The importance of his work
today.
Slide 6 another slide on when and where
he was born.
Slide 7 thank you slide
Where and when he was
born!
• He was born in Clement, France
and was not allowed to work in
textbooks.
• He was allowed to go to his father’s
meetings .
• When he was eighteen he was
fascinated in maths and became a
famous mathematician.
Education available at the time
• His father Etienne Pascal kept Blaise at home to
ensure that he wasn’t being overwork and with
the same object it was directed that his
education should be at first confined to the study
of languages, and should not include any
mathematics.
• But this naturally exited him his curiosity, and
one day when he was 12 years old, he asked
what geometry consisted.
• Etienne responded by forbidding his son to
further pursue mathematics until the age of
fifteen.
His discoveries and inventions
Blaise Pascal had many discoveries
but one of the most famous was the
Pascal's Triangle.
 He also invented one of the first
mechanical calculator. It was a
wooden shaped box. Inside the box
there was 4 gears one for the units
one for the tenths one for the
hundreds and one for the thousands.
• The work explains that men were unable
to write the sacred history until four
Apostles were divinely inspired to do so. A
chronology then follows as a list of
prophecies that Christ full filled.
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• Blaise Pascal was born in June 19th 1963
and died August 19th 1623.
• He was a French Mathematician a
Religious Philosopher and a Physicist.
Pythagoras of Samos
Born &+Bred
He was Born In 569 BC of the Island of
Samos &+ Died in 475 BC.
His mother was native of Samos and his
father was a merchant from Tyre.
He studied with the priest of Memphis,
who was well-known for his wisdom.
After Memphis, he studied at the
temples of Tyre and Byblos in Phoenicia
Education
Little is known about Pythagoras's
childhood. But some say he was well
educated learning to play the lyre,
learning poetry &+ to recite Homer. He
was Influenced among his teachers by
three philosophers. One of the most
important men to help Pythagoras in his
Education was Pherekydes .
<< Pherekydes
Pythagoras Theorem
Firstly a Theorem is an idea.
Years ago, a man named Pythagoras found am
amazing fact about triangles :
If the triangle had a right angle (90)…
And you made a square on each of the three
sides, then…
The biggest square had the exact same area
as the other two squares put together!
(He also discovered astronomy)
Importance of his work day
Without The Pythagoras theorem we
wouldn't know a lot about astronomy
which is the study of Stars &+ Planets.
In and of itself, it shows the relationship
between the three sides of a right
triangle. It has other application too,
though.
Thanks for Listening
Thank you very much for listening and
we hope you have learnt some thing
about this mathematician “Pythagoras”
because we definitely have .
• Plato was born in Athens, which is in Greece
• He was born 424–423 BC it was one of those no one
knows which one
• He died on one of these dates - 348–347 BC
• Plato was born into an aristocratic Athenian family, and
he grew up during the Peloponnesian War.
• It is likely that he served in the cavalry in various
campaigns against Sparta.
• Disgusted by the belligerent and self-destructive policies
of his native city, he stayed out of politics and spent most
of his time and energy pursuing philosophy.
• He became Socrates' most illustrious student.
• Plato founded the Platonic academy in
Athens.
• It persisted throughout the Hellenistic
period as a sceptical school, untill coming
to an end after the death of Philo of
Larissa in 83 BC . Although philosopher
continued to teach Plato’s philosophy
during the Roman Era.
‘’We call lots of different things ‘red’, but how did we
manage to learn the meaning of the word when we are
never presented with an unambiguous example of
redness? Red things in the world are round and red or
juicy and red or crunchy and red. How, then, did we
ever learn to use the word correctly?”
*Perhaps the most dominant theme of
Plato’s dialogue is the search for certainty in
knowledge. He asks about things he is curious about
and give some effort discovering the answers and
turns out to be important things for humans.
• Plato's characteristic response is to ask more
questions: "As the apple rots, what standard do we
use to determine whether or not it is red? It
seems that we need some unchanging standard,
some fixed redness, but what could fit the bill in
this changing world of rotting apples? If we really
know something, it is hard to see how that
knowledge could turn false. Opinions might turn out
false, but if something is known - squares have
four sides or 2 + 2 = 4, say - it has to be true
forever, says Plato. Since nothing in this changing
world seems able to shore up the permanency,
Plato’s remarkable solution to these problems is
the theory of forms.
• In several
dialogues,
Socrates floats
the idea that
• Knowledge
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• In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex regular polyhedron.
These are the three-dimensional analogs of the convex regular
polygons. There are precisely five such figures (shown below).
They are unique in that the faces, edges and angles are all
congruent.
• The name of each figure is derived from the number of its
faces: respectively 4, 6, 8, 12, and 20
• The aesthetic beauty and symmetry of the Platonic solids have
made them a favorite subject of geometers for thousands of
years. They are named from the ancient Greek philosopher
Plato who theorized the classical elements were constructed
from the regular solids
• ‘Platonism’ is a word used by scholars to refer
to the intellectual consequences of denying, as
Socrates often does, the reality of the
material world. In several dialogues, especially
the republic, Socrates inverts the common
man’s intuition about what is knowable and
what is real. Some people believes something
has to be held to know that it’s real. In the
‘Theaetetus’, he says some people are eu
amousoi, an expression that literally means
happily without muses. In other words, those
people make him live without divine inspiration
that gives him, and people like him, access to
higher insights about reality.