HI ma'am!my reflection for this week is this...
Our lesson this week was not that hard because sir Del Carmen taught us about it last year(i'm talking about the Cartesian Coordinate Plane),anyways...the hard part was making a song out of our lesson,but still,its quite fun to do it!That's all ma'am...see you on monday!Take care!
(reposted...original post:june 14, 2008)
Mathematician of the Week:
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (IPA: /ˈɡaʊs/, , German: Gauß, Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss) (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. Sometimes known as the princeps mathematicorum[1] (Latin, usually translated as "the Prince of Mathematicians", although Latin princeps also can simply mean "the foremost") and "greatest mathematician since antiquity", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.[2]
Gauss was a child prodigy. There are many anecdotes pertaining to his precocity while a toddler, and he made his first ground-breaking mathematical discoveries while still a teenager. He completed Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, his magnum opus, in 1798 at the age of 21, though it would not be published until 1801. This work was fundamental in consolidating number theory as a discipline and has shaped the field to the present day.
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