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BY: CODY WELLS FAMOUS MATHEMATICANS. Thabit ibn Qurra. He was born in 826 in H arran He died in February 18, 901 in Baghdad He was not married He had no children He didn’t attend a college. What he was famous for. Translation Astronomy Mathematics Physics. Translation
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BY: CODY WELLS FAMOUS MATHEMATICANS
Thabit ibn Qurra He was born in 826 in Harran He died in February 18, 901 in Baghdad He was not married He had no children He didn’tattend a college
What he was famous for • Translation • Astronomy • Mathematics • Physics
Translation He was fluent in Greek and Arabic. He rewrote Hunayn's translations of ptolemy’sGeography. • Astronomy According to Copernicus Thabit determined the length of the sidereal year as 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 12 seconds (an error of 2 seconds). He based his claim on Latin text. Thabit published his observations of the sun.
Mathematics He wrote on the theory of numbers. He extended their use to describe the ratios geometrical quantities, a step which the Greek never took. He solved the chessboard problem. He also described Pythagoras theorem • Physics He proposed a theory of motion in which both the upward and downward motion are caused by weight.
Maria Gaetana Agnesi • Born May 16, 1718 • Died January 9, 1799 • she never was married and no children • She attended gulf coast community college
What she was famous for • Which of Agnesi
Agnesi wrote the equation of this curve in the form y = a*sqrt(a*x-x*x)/x because she considered the x-axis to be the vertical axis and the y-axis to be the horizontal axis. • yx2=a2(a-y) or y = a3/(x2 + a2)
Adrien Marie Legendre • Born 1752 • Died 1833 • Was on married or have kids • He was French • He went to college mazarin
What he was famous for • Geometry
He developed the least squares method which has broad application in linear regression, signal processing, statistics and curve fitting.
Where I got my info • google • Wikipedia • Biographies of Women Mathematicians • Fabadigree.com greatest mathematicians of all time • www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/.../Adrien-Marie_Legendre.html • Biography.com