mmw Flashcards
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1596-1650, a French mathematician who developed a coordinate system in the 17th century.
Rene Descartes
(25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) ►was an English mathematician, philosopher ,physicist,
astronomer, theologian, and author
Isaac Newton
formulated trigonometric ideas.
Egyptians
_______ was watching a fly on the ceiling from his bed. He wondered how to best describe the fly’s location and decided that one of the corners of the ceiling could be used as a ______
Rene Descartes, reference point
had developed mathematical ideas which plays very significant role today.
Hindu, Greeks and other mathematicians
The __________ are some of the most incredible man-made structures in history.
Egyptian pyramids
created a link between algebra and geometry.
Rene Descartes
laws of motion and universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
rate of change of momentum of a body is proportional to the resultant force acting on it
The more force, the more acceleration
all forces act in pairs that are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.
every action has an equal and opposite reaction
decimals, fractions, the number zero, negative numbers, and even the value of Pi
Egyptians
the basic rules of geometry, the idea of a formal mathematical proof, and discoveries in number theory, mathematical analysis, and applied mathematics
Greeks
the study of the concept of zero as a number, negative numbers, arithmetic, and algebra
hindu
laws that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it.
Newton’s laws of motion
says that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.
universal gravitation
the branch of mathematics concerned with specific functions of angles and their application to calculations
trigonometry
