domingo, 11 de noviembre de 2018

mathematicians who changed the world


1. Aurelio Ángel Baldor de la Vega

By José Lopez
Name: Aurelio Ángel Baldor de la Vega
Nationality: Cuban
Place and date of birth: Havana Cuba; October 22, 1906
Occupation: mathematician, professor, lawyer, writer
Civil status: Married
Degrees: Doctorate
Contributions: His work "Algebra" was very successful in all Spanish-speaking countries. Aurelio Baldor sold the rights to this book to the Editorial Publicaciones Cultural, of Mexico. In the 1940s he founded the Baldor School in Havana, where he was also director, located in the residential area of El Vedado, on 13th and Linea streets;had 3,500 students
Process to achieve it: After the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the Baldor School was nationalized by the Government of Cuba and the students stopped paying pensions. According to his information, Daniel Baldor Aranalde Raúl Castro ordered him arrested, but Camilo Cienfuegos protected him. At that time he began to feel discomfort in the prostate. On the death of Cienfuegos, in 1960, Baldor decided to leave the country with his family: on July 19, 1960, he left for Mexico; Then I went to the United States, first to New Orleans and then to New York. Later I got a job as a professor at Saint Peter's University in Jersey City, New Jersey, the city to which I moved. New Jersey He devoted himself to the study of theorems and the gestation of pre-calculus mathematical exercises. Finally, Aurelio Baldor, already retired, went with his wife, Moraima Aranalde and his children to Miami, where he died on April 2, 1978 due to pulmonary emphysema.

2. Pythagoras

By Rafael Cabañas Rocha

Pythagoras was born on the island of Samos (Greece), in 570 a. C. and died in Metaponto in 469 a. C., son of Mnesarco. He was a disciple of Thales and Fenecidas of Syria, studied at the school of Miletus. He suffered exile to escape the tyranny of the dictator Samio Polícrates, so he wandered until he settled in 531 BC. C. in the Italian colonies of Greece, where he founded his famous Pythagorean school in Crotona, in southern Italy. It is believed that he invented (if not his disciples) the multiplication tables and that he was the first to demonstrate the well-  known theorem of Pythagoras.

3. Alan Turing

By Emiliano Gonzalez Jimenez


Alan Mathison Turing was a mathematician, logical, computer, scientist, cryptographer, was born in chesire is considered the father of computer science During the Second World War helped to decipher the enigma code Developed the Turing test to determine the intelligence level of an AI He was homosexual, even when British law forbade him He was condemned to Chemical Castration for "unseemly attitudes" He committed suicide at 42 for a poisoned apple, the Apple Inc. logo is a tribute. It is estimated that thanks to their actions the war was shortened between 2 to 4 years, saving more than 2 million lives.


4. Carl Friedrich Gauss

By Andrik García Reyes


Mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and sciences. Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum (Latin for "the foremost of mathematicians") and "the greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science, and is ranked among history's most influential mathematicians.

He further advanced modular arithmetic, greatly simplifying manipulations in number theory. On 8 April he became the first to prove the quadratic reciprocitylaw. This remarkably general law allows mathematicians to determine the solvability of any quadratic equation in modular arithmetic. The prime number theorem, conjectured on 31 May, gives a good understanding of how the prime numbers are distributed among the integers.

In 1840, Gauss published his influential Dioptrische Untersuchungen, in which he gave the first systematic analysis on the formation of images under a paraxial approximation (Gaussian optics).

On 23 February 1855, Gauss died of a heart attack in Göttingen.



5. Thales of Miletus (624-546 b.C)



Thales of Miletus was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, geometer, physicist and legislator. He was born in Miletus. His fathers were Examio and Cleobulina. He is considered as 1 of the seven sages of Greek also he is the founder of the school of Miletus.



His contributions are the theorem of Tales, philosophical knowledge and the use of the deductive thinking in geometry. We are sure that he made much things but there isn’t enough information about him and his life.