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Education - Mathematics

Historic Mathematicians Born on January

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Length: 6 Pages
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In aerodynamics Bernoulli's principle is used to explain the pick up of an airplane wing in flight. (the Aerodynamic Development of the Formula One Car) wing is so…

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Education - Mathematics

Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Words: 587
Length: 2 Pages
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Mathematician - Maria Gaetana Agnesi JAFLOR Maria Gaetana Agnesi Since the olden days, mathematics has been an area of study that has contributed much to diverse discoveries, inventions, and innovations of science…

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Education - Mathematics

Mathematician Biography and Works The

Words: 1353
Length: 4 Pages
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The Jansenists were condemned by the pope in 1653 and 1713. Characteristic beliefs of the school included "the idea of the total sinfulness of humanity, predestination, and the…

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Education - Mathematics

Mathematician Nassar Sylvia A Beautiful

Words: 638
Length: 2 Pages
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" (assar, p.15) He had a wife and a young child by this time, and seemed to have a relatively stable if eccentric family and professional life. Then, the…

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Education - Mathematics

George Polya the Hungarian Mathematician

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Length: 4 Pages
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He however refused. Because of this, Polya could only return to his home country many years after the end of the war. Having taken wiss citizenship, Polya then…

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Education - Mathematics

History of Chinese Mathematics

Words: 1633
Length: 6 Pages
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Chinese Mathematics In ancient China, the science of mathematics was subsumed under the larger practice of suan chu, or the "art of calculation." The Chinese are believed to be one…

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Thesis

Physics

Ramanujan the Improbable Life and

Words: 1035
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Thesis

He was miserably poor. ... He opened his book and began to explain some of his discoveries. I saw quite at once that there was something out of…

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Education - Mathematics

Art and Mathematics Are Related

Words: 2688
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Note the distinct similarities. An examination of Escher's Circle Limit III can thus tell us much about distance in hyperbolic geometry. In both Escher's woodcut and the Poincare disk,…

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Drama - World

Renowned Cryptographers and Cryptanalysts Cryptography

Words: 1187
Length: 4 Pages
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Agnes Meyer Driscoll Like Yardley, Agnes Meyer Driscoll was born in 1889, and her most significant contribution was also made during World War I. Driscoll worked as a cryptanalyst for…

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Education - Mathematics

Aristotle and His Contribution to

Words: 685
Length: 2 Pages
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Aristotle used mathematics in many of his other studies, as well. Another writer notes, "Aristotle used mathematics to try to 'see' the invisible patterns of sound that we…

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Essay

Education - Mathematics

Logarithm History and Modern Applications

Words: 877
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

e. all loans. The same basic formulas using logarithms can be used to calculate the needed number of investments and/or the time period of investments at a given growth…

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Education - Computers

Claude Shannon Does Not Have the Same

Words: 798
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Claude Shannon does not have the same name recognition as obert Oppenheimer, Albert Einstein, Alexander Bell, Bill Gates, or Doyle Brunson, but his work had an impact that rivaled…

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Research Proposal

Family and Marriage

H-1B Shortage in Today's Society

Words: 10207
Length: 35 Pages
Type: Research Proposal

To protect themselves, many Americans chose to avoid working with or becoming friends with those who immigrated. A lack of trust permeated everything that the Americans did in regards…

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Psychology

Creative Process Incubation Is One

Words: 647
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Thesis

Sublimation refers to this channeling of emotional intensity into creative work: to transform basic psychological or sexual urges into sublime revelations. 2. The collective unconscious is a term most…

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Literature

Beautiful Mind a Film

Words: 981
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

Beautiful Mind" -- a Film John Forbes Nash, Jr., an American Nobel Prize-winning mathematician, is such a notable individual that he is the subject of a book, a PBS…

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Education - Mathematics

Derivatives and Definite Integral

Words: 688
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Derivatives and Definite Integrals Word Count (excluding title and works cited page): 628 Calculus pioneers of the seventeenth century such as Leibniz, ewton, Barrow, Fermat, Pascal, Cavelieri, and Wallis sought to…

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Education - Mathematics

Lives of Archimedes and Carl Friedrich Gauss

Words: 1956
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Term Paper

lives of Archimedes and Carl Friedrich Gauss, two of the greatest mathematicians of all time, through a point by point comparison of their childhood and education, mathematical contributions…

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Education - Mathematics

What Should I Major in if I'm Good at Math

Words: 625
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Research Paper

decision to become a math major should not be taken lightly. ecent graduates are generally required to have a master's degree and the job market for mathematicians is…

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Education - Mathematics

Who Invented Pascal's Triangle

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Length: 4 Pages
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Pascal's Triangle [...] who really invented Pascal's Triangle. hile the mathematical formula known as "Pascal's Triangle" has long been attributed to its' namesake, Blaise Pascal, this is not…

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Education - Mathematics

Hypatia of Alexandria Daughter of Theon

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Length: 4 Pages
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Hypatia of Alexandria, daughter of Theon. Specifically, it will examine the life of Hypatia, especially her mathematical accomplishments. Hypatia was the first female mathematician that left a record…

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Education - Mathematics

George Cantor

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Length: 2 Pages
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Mathematics George Cantor The purpose of the paper is to develop a concept of the connection between mathematics and society from a historical perspective. Specifically, it will discuss the subject, what…

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Essay

Education - Mathematics

Pi Is Interwoven With the

Words: 1333
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

6). Pi is, therefore, on the level of philosophical discourse because many other mathematical problems elucidated by the ancients have since been solved. Arndt et al. claim that…

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Education - Mathematics

Georg Cantor A Genius Out of Time

Words: 2882
Length: 9 Pages
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Georg Cantor: A Genius Out of Time If you open a textbook, in high school or college, in the first chapter you will be introduced to set theory and the…

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Education - Mathematics

Mathematics as Creative Art P K

Words: 340
Length: 1 Pages
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if, as Halmos suggests, math is a creative art then math must also be the handmaid of science. Describing mathematics as a creative art helps students of math better…

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Education - Mathematics

Euclid's Fifth Postulate

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Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Euclid's Fifth Postulate Philosophical and Logical Problems Contained in Euclid's Fifth Postulate Euclid gave the world much of the information it has on planar geometry in his five postulates. hile the…

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Thesis

Film

Bleep Do We Know Written

Words: 1489
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Thesis

I've never "seen" a million dollars, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. A couple of the other physics concepts can be difficult to comprehend, as well. For example,…

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Education - Mathematics

Eudoxus of Cnidus Boyer in

Words: 1237
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

He invented a planetary system, which consisted of spheres, the earth being still at the center, and twenty-seven concentric spheres rotating around the earth. Actually, most of his accomplishments…

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Education - Mathematics

Euclid -- 323-285 B C Was a Historical

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Length: 4 Pages
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Euclid -- 323-285 B.C was a historical figure who taught at Alexandria in Egypt. There are three hypotheses revolving around Euclid's life. The first is that he wrote his…

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Research Proposal

Education - Mathematics

Carl Friedrich Gauss This Is

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Length: 2 Pages
Type: Research Proposal

He made three main contributions to the theory of numbers: congruence theory, studies on the separation of the circle into equal parts, and theory of quadratic forms. Algebra and…

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Research Proposal

Transportation

Distribution Planning Systems Based on

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Length: 8 Pages
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" (Rizzoli, Oliverio, Montemanni and Gambardella, 2004) According to Rizzoli, Oliverio, Montemanni and Gambardella objectives are that which "measure the fitness of a solution. They can be multiple and often…

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Education - Mathematics

Nova Episode the Proof

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Length: 3 Pages
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Proof, a NOVA episode aired on PS [...] review the video, with a focus on what the video tells us about how people learn to do mathematics. Compare…

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Black Studies - Philosophy

John Dee Such an Enigmatic

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Length: 8 Pages
Type: Research Paper

'" (Molland 257) of course, this kind of thinking would eventually lead Dee to argue that "at length I perceived onely God (and by his good Angels) could satisfy…

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Literature

People Working Out Math Constitutes

Words: 1925
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Research Proposal

Considering this belief into account for the discussion of math and poetry, through the general observation and understanding, it is observed that math and poetry constitute the form…

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Essay

Education - Mathematics

Fractal in Its Completed and

Words: 1470
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

(Weisstein "Menger Sponge" 2009) It is created by dividing a cube into 27 equivalent cubes. This resembles a ubik's cube. The central cube is then removed. Each of…

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Psychology

Beautiful Mind the Film a

Words: 1431
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

He also has hallucinations about being followed by a federal agent, in keeping with his academic world where the government seeks on the one hand to employ mathematicians…

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Education - Mathematics

Archimedes Many Experts Consider Archimedes

Words: 794
Length: 3 Pages
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His work on levers caused him to remark: "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth (Biography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes#Biography)." One of today's industries that Archimedes…

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Astronomy

Johannes Kepler Was a Key

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Length: 10 Pages
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Had this false belief not been perpetuated it may very well be Kepler who directly formulated the laws of gravity well before the time of Newton. Kepler's second law,…

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Education - Mathematics

Math Explains the World the

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Length: 4 Pages
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First, math courses are required as part of college work in the pursuit of most degrees in the health care field. The level of required achievement is different,…

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Black Studies - Philosophy

Zeno's Paradoxes for More Than

Words: 979
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Research Paper

A bit less far this time, certainly, but a bit none the less. He is always getting closer, but never makes up the lost ground completely. Intuitively at least,…

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Astronomy

Stephen William Hawking The Writer

Words: 2168
Length: 8 Pages
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It is almost as if Hawking wants science and religion to agree. He also uses a sense of humor often times to get his point across. In UIAN, he uses…

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Psychology

Beautiful Mind by Silvia Nasar The Real

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Length: 9 Pages
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Beautiful Mind by Silvia Nasar: The Real Story Of Schizophrenia For anyone who has seen the film A Beautiful Mind John Nash comes across as a man troubled by schizophrenia,…

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Black Studies - Philosophy

Plato Was Born to an

Words: 1913
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Term Paper

They do not occupy space. Nevertheless, although the Form of a circle has never been seen -- -indeed, could never be seen -- -mathematicians and others do in…

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Literature

Omar Khayyam The Man and

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Length: 5 Pages
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Richard Le Gallienne, however, shows a Khayyam who may have liked to look at the stars but was far more contented to find peace and happiness in this world…

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Literature

Jurassic Park

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Length: 3 Pages
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Jurassic Park The famous 1991 novel, Jurassic Park, is based on the subject of a wildlife preserve for dinosaurs. The renowned writer of this novel, Michael Crichton, hoisted the conventional…

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Physics

Communication History

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Length: 15 Pages
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Communication History Fans of science fiction are fond of recalling a remark by novelist Arthur C. Clarke, to the effect that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I…

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Education - Mathematics

Sine Cosine and Tangent

Words: 1135
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Sine, Cosine, And Tangent When using trigonometric functions, the three sides of a right triangle (opposite, adjacent and hypotenuse) are identified in relation to a chosen angle. The trigonometric functions…

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Mythology - Religion

Neuroplasticity Related to Buddhism What

Words: 1745
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

' (Davidson; Lutz, 175) The target of such function is to better comprehend the manner varied circuits are combined during the meditation to generate the mental and behavioral variations…

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Book Report

Business - Advertising

Numerati Baker Stephen 2008 The

Words: 1264
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Book Report

That could lead to all kinds of advertising insights," even though it could just be a coincidence (Baker 2008, p.3). The result could be a cutting-edge campaign for…

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Education - Mathematics

Butts R E 2001 Galileo In

Words: 864
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Annotated Bibliography

He looks at thee methods: histoy (melding infomation about the divese geogaphical oigins of algeba with the poblems themselves), multiple epesentations (using notation, naative, geometic, gaphical, and othe…

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Mythology - Religion

Pessimism in Poetry Pessimism in

Words: 16260
Length: 50 Pages
Type: Term Paper

" The point made by the poet is similar to the poem above. The reference to John, The Father of our souls, shall be, John tells us, doth not yet appear; is…

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Evolution

Intelligent Design Evolution Intelligent Design

Words: 2283
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Term Paper

ut science is about stepping stones: the creation of theories and hypothesis, and the testing of these hypotheses with empiricism. If these theories fail, then additional hypotheses have…

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Physics

Issac Newton Isaac Newton Sir

Words: 1898
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Moreover, his theories regarding the gravitation were supposed not to have been made possible without the attempts of his predecessors, as Galileo, to understand the world. Thus, Newton's…

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Essay

Drama - World

Gothic Period Cultural and Construction

Words: 4930
Length: 17 Pages
Type: Essay

William of Occam formulated the principle of Occam's Razor, which held that the simplest theory that matched all the known facts was the correct one. At the University of…

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Economics

International Trade Theory The Theory

Words: 1666
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

In the real world, most markets are far from fully competitive, labor-productivity within a country varies over time and full employment is just a dream in most capitalist…

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Black Studies - Philosophy

Aristotle on the Web Aristotle

Words: 801
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

But the view of Aristotle is more critical, rather than seeing the philosopher as a great prognosticator. Aristotle is presented as a great patriarch, occasionally overly venerated, as…

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Physics

Absolute Determinism

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Length: 2 Pages
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Absolute Determinism Questions about place and role of reason puzzle generations of philosophers as they are among the fundamental questions of philosophy. In case it appears that everything is planned…

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Psychology

Schizophrenia John Nash John Nash

Words: 1613
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

In addition, they both realize that stress can make his condition worse, and work to reduce stress on him. That would also be an important part of his…

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Education - Mathematics

Mathematical Proofs Middle School Mathematics

Words: 386
Length: 1 Pages
Type: Term Paper

As Kleiner & Movo*****z-Hadar show, the burden of proof lies with the mathematician eager to uncover some unknown universal law or theorem. His or her colleagues will, as…

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Essay

Education - Mathematics

Operations Can Be Described as the Set

Words: 1335
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

operations can be described as the set of rules that mathematicians have established and agreed to adhere to in order to avoid mass confusion when simplifying mathematical equations…

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Essay

Education - Mathematics

Archimedes Was a Greek Scholar Born in

Words: 675
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Archimedes was a Greek scholar born in 287 BCE in Syracuse, which is modern-day Sicily. His father was an astronomer, but not a very famous one, whose name was…

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