The Thirty Greatest Mathematicians Click for a discussion of certain omissions. Please send me e-mail if you believe there's a major flaw in my rankings (or an error in any of the biographies). Obviously the relative ranks of, say Fibonacci and Ramanujan, will never satisfy everyone since the reasons for their "greatness" are different. I'm sure I've overlooked great mathematicians who obviously belong on this list. Please e-mail and tell me! Following are the top mathematicians in chronological (birth-year) order. Earliest mathematicians Little is known of the earliest mathematics, but the famous Ishango Bone from Early Stone-Age Africa has tally marks suggesting arithmetic. Early Vedic mathematicians The greatest mathematics before the Golden Age of Greece was in India's early Vedic (Hindu) civilization. Top Thales of Miletus (ca 624 - 546 BC) Greek domain Apastambha (ca 630-560 BC) India Pythagoras of Samos (ca 578-505 BC) Greek domain Panini (of Shalatula) (ca 520-460 BC) Gandhara (India) Tiberius(?) Geocentrism vs.
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home (dubaiisnuts) Dubai in 1990 prior to the craziness The same street in 2003 Last year The madness. Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% of all the world's cranes. The Dubai Waterfront. All of this was built in the last 5 years, including that island that looks like a palm tree. The Palm Islands in Dubai. Upon completion, the resort will have 2,000 villas, 40 luxury hotels, shopping centers, movie theaters, and many other facilities. The World Islands. 300 artificially created islands in the shape of the world. The Burj al-Arab hotel in Dubai. Hydropolis, the world's first underwater hotel. The Burj Dubai. This is what downtown Dubai will look like around 2008-2009. The Al Burj. Recently it was announced that the final height of this tower will be 1200 meters. Theres still more of this craziness. Onto page 2
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s Math Resources - Integers: Operations with Signed Numbers Have you ever been to a party like this? Everyone is happy and having a good time (they are ALL POSITIVE). Suddenly, who should appear but the GROUCH (ONE NEGATIVE)! The grouch goes around complaining to everyone about the food, the music, the room temperature, the other people.... What happens to the party? But wait... is that another guest arriving? What if another grouch (A SECOND NEGATIVE) appears? Now that the two grouches are together the rest of the people (who were really positive all along) become happy once again. The moral of the story is that (at least in math, when multiplying or dividing) the number of positives don't matter, but watch out for those negatives!! To determine whether the outcome will be positive or negative, count the number of negatives: If there are an even number of negatives -and you can put them in pairs- the answer will be positive, if not... it'll be negative: Negatives in PAIRS are POSITIVE; NOT in pairs, they're NEGATIVE.
mental_floss Blog » Extreme Home Engineering: How To Build Your Own TiVo This week: How to build your own TiVo (or, How to never miss an important football game ever again.) Building your own TiVo—or FreeVo, as some call it—is more than a dream. It's more than a trend. Make and Wired have published detailed how-tos. For the technology dunces of the world—myself included—I had several friends break down the jargon into simple steps we can all understand. Your mission: To build your own digital video recorder from mail-order parts. The payoff: An integrated entertainment system that records TV programs with no monthly fees. Keep reading for your marching orders... Ingredients 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. "You have to consider WAF (wife acceptance factor -- or HAF if it's the wife doing the installation). Steps 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Chris Weber is an occasional contributor to mentalfloss.com.
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