Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”) is the study of quantity, structure, space, and change.Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proof. The research required to solve mathematical problems can take years or even centuries of sustained inquiry. Since the pioneering work of Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), David Hilbert (1862–1943), and others on axiomatic systems in the late 19th century, it has become customary to view mathematical research as establishing truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions. When those mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, then mathematical reasoning often provides insight or predictions.
Through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, mathematics developed from counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Practical mathematics has been a human activity for as far back as written records exist. Rigorous arguments first appeared in Greek mathematics, most notably in Euclid's Elements. Mathematics developed at a relatively slow pace until the Renaissance, when mathematical innovations interacting with new scientific discoveries led to a rapid increase in the rate of mathematical discovery that has continued to the present day.
Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975) is an American actress, academic, and education advocate. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years, and later as author of three popular non-fiction books: Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, and Hot X: Algebra Exposed, which encourage middle-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics.
Born in La Jolla, California, McKellar moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight. Her mother Mahalia is a homemaker; her father Christopher is a real estate developer. Her family is "a big mix of Western Europe": Her mother's ancestry is Portuguese (via the Azores and Madeira islands); her father's ancestry is Scottish, Irish, French, German and Dutch. McKellar and her sister Crystal McKellar (who is loosely named after their dad) both maintained professional acting careers as children, but with a strong emphasis on education as a priority. As a result, Crystal became a corporate lawyer (her family nicknamed her "Legally Blonde" because of her hair color), while Danica majored in mathematics. Danica and Crystal also have two half-brothers, Chris Junior and Connor McKellar.
Daniel Tammet (born on 31 January 1979) is a British writer and autistic savant. His best selling 2006 memoir, Born on a Blue Day, about his life with high-functioning autism and savant syndrome, was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association.
Tammet's second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was named one of France's best selling books of 2009 by L'Express magazine in its March 2010 edition.
Tammet's books have been published in 20 languages.
Tammet was born Daniel Paul Corney and raised in East London, England, the eldest of nine children. He suffered epileptic seizures as a young child, which he subsequently outgrew following medical treatment. At age twenty-five, he would eventually be diagnosed with Asperger syndrome by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of the Autism (Spectrum) Research Centre at Cambridge University. Tammet is one of fewer than a hundred "prodigious savants" according to Dr. Darold Treffert, the world's leading researcher in the study of savant syndrome.
Conrad Wolfram (born 1970) is a British technologist and businessman known for his work in information technology and its application.
Conrad Wolfram founded Wolfram Research Europe Ltd. in 1991 and remains its managing director. In 1996 he additionally became Strategic and International Director of Wolfram Research, Inc., making him also responsible for Wolfram Research Asia Ltd, and communications such as the wolfram.com website.
Wolfram Research was founded by his brotherStephen Wolfram, the maker of Mathematica software and the Wolfram Alpha knowledge engine.
Conrad Wolfram has led the effort to move the use of Mathematica from pure computation system to development and deployment engine, instigating technology such as the Mathematica Player family and web Mathematica and by pushing greater automation within the system. He has also lead the focus on interactive publishing technology with the stated aim of "making new applications as everyday as new documents" claiming that "If a picture is worth a thousand words, an interactive document is worth a thousand pictures." These technologies converged to form the Computable Document Format
An ant crawls at a rate of one foot per minute on a rubber band
The band is one yard long and stretched at a rate of one yard per minute
If the ant begins at one end of the band
will it ever reach the other end?
If so, how long will it take the ant?
Will it make it if the band has a two yard lead?
Billy goes to school will fifteen quarters in each hand
A fifth pays for his lunch but then another third pays for a field trip
If he saves half of the rest but then gives the other half away
to his only friend
How much did Billy save and if he buys his lunch tomorrow
how much more will he need?
Math
Math
Math
A train leaves from Chicago travelling south at ten miles an hour
Another train heads north at twice the speed but fifty miles away
If the trains both leave at noon then at what time and at what place
will the trains collide?
Extra credit: Tell how far each train ran give your answer in miles
to the nearest tenth
A ball is thrown at sixteen feet per second from a water tower
The tower's perpendicular to the ground and ninety-six feet high
Find the height of the ball after half a second
What's the speed of the ball when the ground breaks its stride?
How long will it take the ball to fall?
How deep in the ground will it make a dent?
A + C = D - A
Math
A + C = D - A
Math
A + C = D - A
Math
2A + C = D
How many roads must a man walk down before his journey is complete
Given: That he wants to walk twenty-seven miles
and each road that he walks is 4000 feet
Please round your answer to the nearest tenth
and show all your work on a separate sheet
The answer my friend is 17.4
Double D
Big full breasts on my baby
(Yo we goin' to Florida)
Triple weight
Couldn't weigh the love I've got for the girl
And I just wanna know
Why you ain't been goin' to work
Boss ain't workin' ya like this
He can't take care of you like this
Now you're lost
Lost in the heat of it all
Girl you know you're lost
Lost in the thrill of it all
Miami, Amsterdam
Tokyo, Spain, lost
Los Angeles, India
Lost on a train, lost
Got on my buttercream
silk shirt and it's Versace
Hand me my triple weight
So I can weigh the work I got on your girl
(Too ? to live, too ? to die)
No I don't really wish
I don't wish the titties would show
No, have I ever
Have I ever let you get caught?
Now you're lost
Lost in the heat of it all
Girl you know you're lost
Lost in the thrill of it all
Miami, Amsterdam
Tokyo, Spain, lost
Los Angeles, India
Lost on a train, lost
She's at a stove (Who?)
Can't believe I got her out here cookin' dope (Cookin' dope)
I promise she'll be
Whippin' meals up for a family of her own some day
Nothin' wrong (Nothin' wrong, ain't nothin' wrong)
No nothin' wrong with life
Nothin' wrong with another short plane ride
(Nothin' wrong, ain't nothin' wrong)
Through the sky (Up in the sky)
You and I (Just you and I)
Now you're lost
Lost in the heat of it all
Girl you know you're lost
Lost in the thrill of it all
Miami, Amsterdam
Tokyo, Spain, lost
Los Angeles, India
Lost on a train, lost
Love lost
Love love
Love lost
Love love
Love lost
Love love
Love lost
Life is the substance