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Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
Mathematical principles of perspective in art; [9] his books include De prospectiva pingendi (On perspective for painting), Trattato d’Abaco (Abacus treatise), and De corporibus regularibus (Regular solids) Demaine, Erik and Martin: 1981– Origami "Computational origami": mathematical curved surfaces in self-folding paper sculptures [10] [11 ...
The Mathematical Movie Database by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross; Mathematics in Movies by Oliver Knill (Harvard University) My Math Movie Picks by Brian Harbourne (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) Math in the Movies by Arnold G. Reinhold; Math Becomes Way Cool by Keith Devlin (Mathematical Association of America) Top 10 Math Movies (infographic)
Robert Recorde and other Welsh Mathematicians; 100 Welsh Heroes – Robert Recorde; Earliest Uses of Symbols of Relation; Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics This contains numerous quotations from Recorde. RECORDE (Robert) in Charles Hutton's Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary; Robert Recorde's life and works on h2g2
In Greece, the home of ancient Greek mathematics, he looks at the contributions of some of its greatest and well known mathematicians including Pythagoras, Plato, Euclid, and Archimedes, who are some of the people who are credited with beginning the transformation of mathematics from a tool for counting into the analytical subject we know today ...
One of the earliest known mathematicians was Thales of Miletus (c. 624 – c. 546 BC); he has been hailed as the first true mathematician and the first known individual to whom a mathematical discovery has been attributed. [1]
The film stars Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan, a real-life mathematician who, after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G. H. Hardy, portrayed by Jeremy Irons.
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Софья Васильевна Ковалевская; born Korvin-Krukovskaya; 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February 1891) was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics.