What is the difference between Algebra and Calculus? Algebra and calculus are two fairly distinct branches of mathematics; to say that they are not related is probably not strictly right in that most branches of mathematics are somehow inter-related –…
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Evariste Galois was born on October 25, 1811 in Bourg-la-Reine, France twelve years after the end of the French Revolution. His father, Nicolas-Gabriel, was mayor of the village in which they lived and the headmaster of the local boarding school….
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Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan (1887-1920) was a brilliant, self-taught Indian mathematician and genius who made many fundamental contributions to analytic number theory, computational and probabilistic number theory, and special functions. Born into a poor Brahmin family of Vaishnavite sect on the…
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It is amazing how different areas of mathematics converge to the same results of what is called today group theory. When we studied group theory in high school, we learned the standard version of the subject. However, the history of…
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Abstract algebra is a branch of mathematics which builds upon set theory. A set is a collection of elements in which order is unimportant. Set theorists also consider the nature of the elements in the set irrelevant; the rules governing…
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In Mathematics, a slope is a way of explaining a line. This article will explain real life slopes, compare them to algebraic slopes, and finally, explain why algebraic slopes are important. A real life slope is what you will find…
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Modes, medians, and means are very different forms of obtaining statistical information about a set of data. When we use the term ‘average’ all scientists and mathematicians think of mean because that is the only true average that can be…
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The following article is all about how I help students to understand directed numbers. I would like to focus on the subtraction and addition of directed numbers.Where I teach the first time students learn about directed numbers in a math…
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Calculus: A Brief Introduction Calculus is a branch of mathmatics that was jointly created by Newton and Leibnitz and is based on the behavior of infintesimal changes. It has extremely far reaching capabilities and it used extensively in fields ranging…
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Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is the largest and most populous city in Africa and the 17th most populous in the world. Its estimated metropolitan population is nearly 15.2 million, although newer estimates place it closer to 25 million. In…
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