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- 1. Newton's Method: A Computer Project
Newton's Method is used to find the root of an equation provided that the function f[x] is equal to zero. Newton Method is an equation created before the days of calculators and was used to find approximate roots to numbers. The roots of the function are where the function crosses the x axis. The basic principle behind Newton's Method is that the r
2. Gods Gift To Calculators: The Taylor Series
It is incredible how far calculators have come since my parents were in college, which was when the square root key came out. Calculators since then have evolved into machines that can take natural logarithms, sines, cosines, arcsines, and so on. The funny thing is that calculators have not gotten any "smarter" since then. In fact, calculators are
3. Aristotle
was a Greek philosopher and was born in 348 B.C. He studied under another philopsopher Plato and later tutored Alexander the Great at the Macedonian court. In 335 B.C. he opened a school in the Athenian Lyceum. During the anti-macedonian agitation after Alexander's death fled to Chalcis where he later died in 322 B.C. His extant writings, largely i
4. Calculus
"One of the greatest contributions to modern mathematics, science, and engineering was the invention of near the end of the 17th century," says The New Book of Popular Science. Without the invention of , many technological accomplishments, such as the landing on the moon, would have been difficult. The word "" originated from the Latin word meaning
5. The Lady Of Shalott
written by Lord Tennyson is a mythical poem about a worman's love for an unattainable man. One interpretation regarding the function of the morror is crucial to identifying before one can fully grasp the rest of the poem. One comes to this conclusion because the function of the mirror is derectly responsible for what happens in the rest of the poe