Category: Math

There are many who question, where the geometry term Pi came from and what its actual meaning is. For instance, in school students are introduced to symbols like Pi. Pi is defined as, “the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle”. Furthermore, the size of the circle does not matter because the ratio will always equal Pi. In 1706, William Jones, Welsh mathematician, was the first to use the greek letter “?”, but, it was not until 30 years later that it became a mathematical notation. The symbol comes from the greek alphabet  and […]

The Poisson distribution as an approximation of the binomial distributionIntroductionWhen I was reading up on radioactive decay, I found out that the probability of decay could be expressed in terms of a discrete probability distribution. I had to look it up further because I had just recently learned about probability distributions in math. What I found out was intriguing; the number of atoms decaying in a specific interval of time is actually a discrete variable. It also adheres to Poisson’s postulates, talked about later, so it can be expressed in terms of Poisson distribution. However, when what I noticed was […]

Keyboard• One of the primary input devices used with a computer. • The keyboard looks very similar to thevkeyboards of  electric typewriters, with some additional keys. • Keyboards allow a computer user to input letters,numbers, and other symbols into a computer• Uses an arrangement of buttons or keys.• Requires pressing and holding several keys simultaneously or in sequence.>>Types of Keyboard• Standard#Desktop computer keyboards, such as the 101-key US traditional keyboards or the 104-key Windows keyboards, include alphabetic characters,punctuation symbols, numbers and a variety of function keys.• Laptop#A typical laptop has the same keyboard type as a normal keyboard, except for […]

Justin Carlton PI DAY 3/14/13 * Definition of pi: Pi is the 16th letter in the Greek alphabet. It is equal to 3. 141592 when shortened, but never ends. * Archimedes-One of the major contributions Archimedes made to mathematics was his method for approximating the value of pi. It had long been recognized that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was constant, and a number of approximations had been given up to that point in time. Archimedes was the first person to calculate the value of pi. Ptolemy- Ptolemy was an observer and mathematician who […]

Reading this chapter was really interesting and I definitely would say that I learned something new, for example; I didn’t know that a muslim mathematician named this algebra,  al-jabr and that it translates to restoring. Now that I got a better idea about the quadratic formula, I feel like as long as you know the standard form and you are able to remember  or just recognize the quadratic formula, then this would make the formula more practical as it would be used often by mathematicians as well as students since students are taught and do learn about it at school, […]

/* * MCIS 5103 Project 1 * Name: Oluwafemi Samuel Oyekunle * Student Id: 999993740 * E-Mail: [email protected]. saumag.edu    DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAMME  The game of Pig is a very simple two-player dice game in which the first player to reach 100 or more points wins. Players take turns. On each turn, a player rolls a six-sided die. At any time during a player turn, the player is faced with two decisions:    If the player rolls a 1, then the player scores nothing and it becomes the opponents turn.    If the player rolls 2 through 6, then he or she can either: ROLL […]

A Curie for the Cure From the first woman professor to the first woman to receive a nobel prize Marie Curie was able to change the way women were viewed in the science community forever, and was able to be a role model for thousands of women in many years following her death. With her discovery of Radium and the effects of radiation there have been leaps and bounds in the advances towards the cure of cancer and treatments for it. Even with everything against her, Marie Curie was able to be the most impactful women in the history of […]

It is a great pleasure to recommend Mr.  Siddharth Jain for admission to your premier academic institute for Master Program. I hope my perspective will help you in evaluating this exceptional candidateI have been a Head of the Department – Electronic & Communication and thus have had a keen eye for each of my students. Mr. Siddharth Jain has been my student for two years where I taught him the subjects – Electromagnetic Theory, Microwave Engineering and Antenna & Wave Propagation. He has impressed me with his ability to be articulate about difficult concepts and texts, his sensitivity to the nuances within the theory, and […]

if your bad at that you might as well kiss your good SAT score away because studying for this test is time consuming and could take months to prepare for. To completely destroy this test, you have to understand the steps of studying for it and how the test is made to be taken. In the article The Top 10 Ways to Prepare for the SAT by Knewton they explain the most important steps to mentally prepare for the SAT which are to take the practice test, know the test structure, read, study the vocabulary, write some practice essays, memorize […]

Abstract            Quantumentanglement is when two or more particles interact with each other in such away that you cannot describe one particle without mentioning the other particleor particles. When these particles become entangled, we are able to observe andmeasure certain traits of one, and know, with certainty, the traits of theothers across negligible distances. However, there are drawbacks. For example,only one trait can be measured at a given time. If the velocity of a photon wasmeasured, it is impossible to simultaneously measure the spin of the entangledphoton.1,2 The theory of quantum entanglement has been prevalentsince it was first discovered by Albert […]