Thursday, February 4, 2010

Albert Einstein

BRITTANY:
He was born on March 14, 1879.
His father was Hermann Einstein and his mother was Pauline Einstein.

ZAC:
He was a jew.
His uncle and father founded a electrical equipment factory.

LIZZIE:
His family moved around alot trying to find work.
His wife was Milvea Maric and she also studied mathematics and physics.

Albert Einstein

BRITTANY:
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist.
He is the most influential scientist of all time.

ZAC:
Albert Einstein rewrote the entire beliefs of the science and math community with his equation E = mc squared.
He recieved the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.

LIZZIE:
He published more than 300 scientific works.
He also published 150 non scientific works.
He was born in Elm.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Zac - Pascal's Triangle

This is Blaise Pascal's originial version of the triangle. Pascal had developed many different arrangements of it, but this is where it started. The numbers originally arose from Hindu studies.

Lizzie - Pascal's Triangle


Each row is an arrangement of integers. You add the numbers above to get the number below. So the first blank you would 1 + 1 so you get 2. The second blank you add 2 + 1 and get 3, and so on. The remaining numbers will go 3, 4, 6, 4.

Brittany - Pascal's Triangle

This is the first rows of Pascal's triangle. The first row is the zero row. Each row starts and ends with 1.

PASCAL'S TRIANGLE

BRITTANY:
Pascal's triangle is an arrangement of the bionamial coefficients in a triangle.
It is named after Blaise Pascal, although other mathematicians studied it way before him.

LIZZIE:
The rows of Pascal's triangle are conventionally enumerated starting with 0.
The numbers in each row are usually staggered relative to the numbers in adjacent rows.

ZAC:
The set of numbers that form Pascal's triangle were well known before Pascal.
Pascal was the first to organize all the information together.

Zac - Tessellation

This picture is repeating parrallelograms. It is tiled so that it doesn't have any spaces between each one. The colors make it pretty!