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Mathematics Is a Gentleman's Art: Analysis and Synthesis in American College Geometry Teaching, 1790-1840 Amy K
Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2000 Mathematics is a gentleman's art: Analysis and synthesis in American college geometry teaching, 1790-1840 Amy K. Ackerberg-Hastings Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Higher Education and Teaching Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, and the Science and Mathematics Education Commons Recommended Citation Ackerberg-Hastings, Amy K., "Mathematics is a gentleman's art: Analysis and synthesis in American college geometry teaching, 1790-1840 " (2000). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 12669. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/12669 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margwis, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. in the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. -
Angle Bisection with Straightedge and Compass
ANGLE BISECTION WITH STRAIGHTEDGE AND COMPASS The discussion below is largely based upon material and drawings from the following site : http://strader.cehd.tamu.edu/geometry/bisectangle1.0/bisectangle.html Angle Bisection Problem: To construct the angle bisector of an angle using an unmarked straightedge and collapsible compass . Given an angle to bisect ; for example , take ∠∠∠ ABC. To construct a point X in the interior of the angle such that the ray [BX bisects the angle . In other words , |∠∠∠ ABX| = |∠∠∠ XBC|. Step 1. Draw a circle that is centered at the vertex B of the angle . This circle can have a radius of any length, and it must intersect both sides of the angle . We shall call these intersection points P and Q. This provides a point on each line that is an equal distance from the vertex of the angle . Step 2. Draw two more circles . The first will be centered at P and will pass through Q, while the other will be centered at Q and pass through P. A basic continuity result in geometry implies that the two circles meet in a pair of points , one on each side of the line PQ (see the footnote at the end of this document). Take X to be the intersection point which is not on the same side of PQ as B. Equivalently , choose X so that X and B lie on opposite sides of PQ. Step 3. Draw a line through the vertex B and the constructed point X. We claim that the ray [BX will be the angle bisector . -
A Philosophical and Historical Analysis of Cosmology from Copernicus to Newton
University of Central Florida STARS Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004-2019 2017 Scientific transformations: a philosophical and historical analysis of cosmology from Copernicus to Newton Manuel-Albert Castillo University of Central Florida Part of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Masters Thesis (Open Access) is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004-2019 by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Castillo, Manuel-Albert, "Scientific transformations: a philosophical and historical analysis of cosmology from Copernicus to Newton" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2004-2019. 5694. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/5694 SCIENTIFIC TRANSFORMATIONS: A PHILOSOPHICAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF COSMOLOGY FROM COPERNICUS TO NEWTON by MANUEL-ALBERT F. CASTILLO A.A., Valencia College, 2013 B.A., University of Central Florida, 2015 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Graduate Studies at the University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida Fall Term 2017 Major Professor: Donald E. Jones ©2017 Manuel-Albert F. Castillo ii ABSTRACT The purpose of this thesis is to show a transformation around the scientific revolution from the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries against a Whig approach in which it still lingers in the history of science. I find the transformations of modern science through the cosmological models of Nicholas Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. -
Summer Professional Development for Classical Liberal Arts Teachers
Academy for Classical Teachers Summer Professional Development for Classical Liberal Arts Teachers 2020 Academy for Classical Teachers The Academy for Classical Teachers partners with the Institute for Classi- cal Education to offer online seminars and courses within the classical lib- eral arts tradition. If you are a certified teacher, course hours may be applicable toward re- quired professional development clock hours for recertification. ACT Summer Courses Online Seminars Plato’s Republic (June and July Offerings) Homer’s Iliad (July) Online Courses: Philosophy of Education: Classical Sources Symposium Follow Up: Thucydides’ Education in Virtuous Leadership The Enigma of Health: Natural Science and the Ensouled Body Quadrivium: Euclidean Geometry Questions? Reach out to [email protected] GreatHearts 4801 E. Washington Street, Suite 250 Phoenix, AZ 85034 www.greatheartsamerica.org Academy for Classical Teachers | 2020 Online Seminars Each year, the Academy for Classical Teachers offers leisurely summer seminars around classic philosophical and literary texts. This year, we are pleased to present online seminars on both Plato’s Republic and Homer’s Iliad. Cost: $125 Course Details Plato's Republic (June and July Offerings) June Seminar Plato’s Republic is without question one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is difficult to understand Western civilization without engaging with The Re- June 8-26 public. It is beautifully written, very accessible, and it is a joy to read and discuss this book. Tues. & Thurs. This summer, members of the community will have a special opportunity for an in-depth 6 - 7:30 pm (CST) complete reading and 3-week series of Socratic seminar discussions on this seminal book. -
Introduction to Ultra Fractal
Introduction to Ultra Fractal Text and images © 2001 Kerry Mitchell Table of Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Assumptions ........................................................................................................................ 2 Conventions ........................................................................................................................ 2 What Are Fractals? ......................................................................................................................... 3 Shapes with Infinite Detail .................................................................................................. 3 Defined By Iteration ........................................................................................................... 4 Approximating Infinity ....................................................................................................... 4 Using Ultra Fractal .......................................................................................................................... 6 Starting Ultra Fractal ........................................................................................................... 6 Formula ............................................................................................................................... 6 Size ..................................................................................................................................... -
Chapter One Concerning Motion in General
EULER'S MECHANICA VOL. 1. Chapter one. Translated and annotated by Ian Bruce. page 1 Chapter One Concerning Motion In General. [p. 1] DEFINITION 1. 1. Motion is the translation of a body from the place it occupies to another place. Truly rest is a body remaining at the same place. Corollary 1. 2. Therefore the ideas of the body remaining at rest and of moving to other places cannot be entertained together, except that they occupy a place. Whereby the place or position the body occupies shall be a property of the body, that can be said to be possible only for that body, and that the body is either moving or at rest. Corollary 2. 3. And this idea of moving or of being at rest is a property of a body that relates to all bodies. For no body is able to exist that is neither moving nor at rest. DEFINITION 2. 4. The place [occupied by a body] is a part of the immense or boundless space which constitutes the whole world. In this sense the accepted place is accustomed to be called the absolute place [p. 2], in order that it may be distinguished from a relative place, of which mention will soon be made. Corollary 1. 5. Therefore, when a body occupies successively one part and then another, of this immense space, then it is said to be moving ; but if it continues to be present at the same place always, then it is said to be at rest. Corollary 2. 6. Moreover, it is customery to consider fixed boundaries of this space, to which bodies can be referred. -
Rendering Hypercomplex Fractals Anthony Atella [email protected]
Rhode Island College Digital Commons @ RIC Honors Projects Overview Honors Projects 2018 Rendering Hypercomplex Fractals Anthony Atella [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects Part of the Computer Sciences Commons, and the Other Mathematics Commons Recommended Citation Atella, Anthony, "Rendering Hypercomplex Fractals" (2018). Honors Projects Overview. 136. https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/honors_projects/136 This Honors is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors Projects at Digital Commons @ RIC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Projects Overview by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ RIC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Rendering Hypercomplex Fractals by Anthony Atella An Honors Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Honors in The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science The School of Arts and Sciences Rhode Island College 2018 Abstract Fractal mathematics and geometry are useful for applications in science, engineering, and art, but acquiring the tools to explore and graph fractals can be frustrating. Tools available online have limited fractals, rendering methods, and shaders. They often fail to abstract these concepts in a reusable way. This means that multiple programs and interfaces must be learned and used to fully explore the topic. Chaos is an abstract fractal geometry rendering program created to solve this problem. This application builds off previous work done by myself and others [1] to create an extensible, abstract solution to rendering fractals. This paper covers what fractals are, how they are rendered and colored, implementation, issues that were encountered, and finally planned future improvements. -
Lecture 9: Newton Method 9.1 Motivation 9.2 History
10-725: Convex Optimization Fall 2013 Lecture 9: Newton Method Lecturer: Barnabas Poczos/Ryan Tibshirani Scribes: Wen-Sheng Chu, Shu-Hao Yu Note: LaTeX template courtesy of UC Berkeley EECS dept. 9.1 Motivation Newton method is originally developed for finding a root of a function. It is also known as Newton- Raphson method. The problem can be formulated as, given a function f : R ! R, finding the point x? such that f(x?) = 0. Figure 9.1 illustrates another motivation of Newton method. Given a function f, we want to approximate it at point x with a quadratic function fb(x). We move our the next step determined by the optimum of fb. Figure 9.1: Motivation for quadratic approximation of a function. 9.2 History Babylonian people first applied the Newton method to find the square root of a positive number S 2 R+. The problem can be posed as solving the equation f(x) = x2 − S = 0. They realized the solution can be achieved by applying the iterative update rule: 2 1 S f(xk) xk − S xn+1 = (xk + ) = xk − 0 = xk − : (9.1) 2 xk f (xk) 2xk This update rule converges to the square root of S, which turns out to be a special case of Newton method. This could be the first application of Newton method. The starting point affects the convergence of the Babylonian's method for finding the square root. Figure 9.2 shows an example of solving the square root for S = 100. x- and y-axes represent the number of iterations and the variable, respectively. -
A Rhetorical Analysis of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia A
A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S PRINCIPIA A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, SPEECH, AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES BY GIRIBALA JOSHI, B.S., M.S. DENTON, TEXAS AUGUST 2018 Copyright © 2018 by Giribala Joshi DEDICATION Nature and Nature’s Laws lay hid in Night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light. ~ Alexander Pope Dedicated to all the wonderful eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinkers and philosophers! ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to acknowledge the continuous support and encouragement that I received from the Department of English, Speech and Foreign Languages. I especially want to thank my thesis committee member Dr. Ashley Bender, and my committee chair Dr. Brian Fehler, for their guidance and feedback while writing this thesis. iii ABSTRACT GIRIBALA JOSHI A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON’S PRINCIPIA AUGUST 2018 In this thesis, I analyze Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in the framework of Aristotle’s theories of rhetoric. Despite the long-held view that science only deals with brute facts and does not require rhetoric, we learn that science has its own special topics. This study highlights the rhetorical situation of the Principia and Newton’s rhetorical strategies, emphasizing the belief that scientific facts and theories are also rhetorical constructions. This analysis shows that the credibility of the author and the text, the emotional debates before and after the publication of the text, the construction of logical arguments, and the presentation style makes the book the epitome of scientific writing. -
Trinity Physics – A.C.H. Cheung and G.L. Squires Isaac Newton
Trinity Physics – A.C.H. Cheung and G.L. Squires Isaac Newton Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe Manor in the small village of Colsterworth, near Grantham, on Christmas day, 1642. His father, whose family had farmed a modest estate for several generations, died three months before Newton was born. At the age of twelve he was sent to the King’s School at Grantham, which still exists and where his signature can be seen, carved on the library wall. There, under the influence of the perceptive schoolmaster, Henry Stokes, his intellectual interests were gradually awakened. He was fascinated with the forces of moving air and water, and more abstractly with the concept of time. He built kites, a sundial, a water-clock, and a model windmill driven by a mouse urged on by corn placed in front of it. When he was seventeen his mother called him home, intending that he should manage the family farm. Fortunately, however, his uncle and the schoolmaster had recognised his talents, and persuaded her to allow him to go to university. In June 1661 he entered Trinity, his uncle’s alma mater, equipping himself with a lock for his desk, a quart bottle with ink to fill it, a notebook, a pound of candles, and a chamber-pot. He entered as a sub-sizar, a student who paid his way by waiting and performing menial duties for fellows and fellow commoners (wealthy students who dined on high table). He was awarded a scholarship in 1664, given a livery allowance of 13s 4d (67p) per annum, a stipend of the same amount, and commons, i.e. -
On the Standard Lengths of Angle Bisectors and the Angle Bisector Theorem
Global Journal of Advanced Research on Classical and Modern Geometries ISSN: 2284-5569, pp.15-27 ON THE STANDARD LENGTHS OF ANGLE BISECTORS AND THE ANGLE BISECTOR THEOREM G.W INDIKA SHAMEERA AMARASINGHE ABSTRACT. In this paper the author unveils several alternative proofs for the standard lengths of Angle Bisectors and Angle Bisector Theorem in any triangle, along with some new useful derivatives of them. 2010 Mathematical Subject Classification: 97G40 Keywords and phrases: Angle Bisector theorem, Parallel lines, Pythagoras Theorem, Similar triangles. 1. INTRODUCTION In this paper the author introduces alternative proofs for the standard length of An- gle Bisectors and the Angle Bisector Theorem in classical Euclidean Plane Geometry, on a concise elementary format while promoting the significance of them by acquainting some prominent generalized side length ratios within any two distinct triangles existed with some certain correlations of their corresponding angles, as new lemmas. Within this paper 8 new alternative proofs are exposed by the author on the angle bisection, 3 new proofs each for the lengths of the Angle Bisectors by various perspectives with also 5 new proofs for the Angle Bisector Theorem. 1.1. The Standard Length of the Angle Bisector Date: 1 February 2012 . 15 G.W Indika Shameera Amarasinghe The length of the angle bisector of a standard triangle such as AD in figure 1.1 is AD2 = AB · AC − BD · DC, or AD2 = bc 1 − (a2/(b + c)2) according to the standard notation of a triangle as it was initially proved by an extension of the angle bisector up to the circumcircle of the triangle. -
The Pythagoreans in the Light and Shadows of Recent Research
The Pythagoreans in the light and shadows of recent research PAPER PRESENTED AT THE DONNERIAN SYMPOSIUM ON MYSTICISM, SEPTEMBER 7th 1968 By HOLGER THESLEFF It has been said' that "Pythagoras casts a long shadow in the history of Greek thought". Indeed, the shadow both widens and deepens spectacularly in course of time. He has not only been considered—on disputable grounds, as we shall see as the first European mystic. No other personality of the Greco–Roman world (except Christ, and perhaps Alexander the Great) has been credited with such powers and all-round capacities. Since early Impe- rial times he has been represented as a man of divine origin, a saint, a sage, a prophet, and a great magician; a sportsman and an ascetic; a poet and prose- writer; a Dorian nationalist (though an Ionian by birth); an eminent mathe- matician, musician, astronomer, logician, rhetorician, and physician; a world-wide traveller; a founder of a religious sect, an ethical brotherhood, and a political community; a great metaphysician and teacher whose views of the universe, human society and the human soul deeply influenced not only Plato and Aristotle, but Herakleitos, Parmenides, Demokritos and, in short, all prominent thinkers; a preacher of universal tolerance, and—a good hus- band and father. There can be seen occasional signs of a revival of Pythagoreanism at least from the ist century A. D. onwards,2 and some authors of the Imperial age 1 Philip (below), p. 3. 2 If Pseudo-Pythagorica are left out of account, the activity of the Sextii in Rome during the reign of Augustus is the first manifest sign.