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Michel Chasles
b. 11-15-1793; France
d. 12-18-1880
Michel Chasles was an historian of mathematics, mathematician and professor of mathematics. His first major work was “Historical view of the origin and development of methods in geometry”; he also worked on projective geometry, quadric surfaces and conic sections.
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Madame Émilie du Chatelet-Lomont
b. 12-17-1706; France
d. 9-10-1749; complications of childbirth
Madame Émilie du Chatelet-Lomont was a mathematician, physicist and author. Einstein's famous equation for the energy of matter E=mc2 fits neatly with a principle recognised by Madame de Chatelet 150 years before Einstein in her book Institutions de Physique (“Lessons in Physics”), which she had prepared for her 13 year old son as a “Cliff Notes” study of the newest ideas of the time. She translated Newton's Principia into French and was also great friends with Voltaire, (with her husband's blessing).
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Christoph Clavius
b. 3-25-1538; Germany
d. 2-12-1612
Christoph Clavius was a Jesuit priest, mathematician and astronomer who developed the modern Gregorian calendar.
Galileo visited Clavius to discuss the observations made with the telescope though Clavius held firm to the idea of a geocentric solar system where everything rotates around the Earth.
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Copernicus
b. 2-19-1473; Poland
d. 5-24-1543
Copernicus, a polymath scholar adept in mathematics, law, medicine, diplomacy, government and religion, is best known as the first European astronomer to propose a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology with the Sun at the center of the solar system.
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Marie Curie
b. 11-7-1867; Poland
d. 7-4-1934; Paris - “aplastic pernicious anemia...by long accumulation to radiations”
Poster Text: The pioneering reasearch of physicist and chemist Marie Curie contributed to some of the most important new fields of study in science, from modern physics to the treatment of cancer. Madame Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the most famous honor in science. Eventually she won two Nobels. ... more
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Rene Descartes
b. 3-31-1596; France
d. 2-11-1650
Rene Descartes quotes ~
• “I think; therefore I am.”
• “One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.”
• “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
• “I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.”
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll
b. 1-27-1832; England
d. 1-14-1898
British author, clergyman, mathematician, lecturer and photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who used the pen name Lewis Carroll, is best known as a children's author of the fanciful Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1872).
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The mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson expressing mathematics as Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland ...
“Come, we shall have some fun now!” thought Alice. “I'm glad they've begun asking riddles. – I believe I can guess that,” she added aloud.
“Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?” said the March Hare.
“Exactly so,” said Alice.
“Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on.
“I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least – at least I mean what I say – that's the same thing, you know.”
“Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “You might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!”
“You might just as well say,” added the March Hare, “that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!”
“You might just as well say,” added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, “that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!”
“It IS the same thing with you,” said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much.
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