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Palais de la Découverte | Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 29/05/2012 16h00
One of the most unknown famous buildings in Paris is this palace and museum hidden a bit away from the Avenue des Champs-Elysées and Pont des Invalides in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It's actually the back side of the Grand Palais which is known by a lot more people.
Palais de la Découverte
The Palais de la Découverte is a science museum located in the Grand Palais, in the 8th arrondissement on Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, Paris, France. It is open daily except Monday; an admission fee is charged.
The museum was created in 1937 by Jean Baptiste Perrin (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1926) during an international exhibition on "Arts and techniques in modern life". In 1938 the French government decided to convert the facility into a new museum, which now occupies 25,000 square meters within the west wing of the Grand Palais (Palais d'Antin) built for the Exposition Universelle (1900) to designs by architect Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas. In January 2010 the museum was merged with the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie. The new institution is named universcience.
Today the museum contains permanent exhibits for mathematics, physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and biology, featuring interactive experiments with commentaries by lecturers. It includes a Zeiss planetarium with 15-meter dome.
The museum contains a circular room known as the "pi room". On its wall is inscribed 707 digits of the number π. The digits are large wooden characters attached to the dome-like ceiling. The digits were based on a 1853 calculation by English mathematician William Shanks, which included an error in the 528th digit. The error was detected in 1946 and corrected in 1949.
[ Source: Wikipedia - Palais de la Découverte ]
Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins '13 attended the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program at Berkeley last summer and now has his sights set on graduate school and the field of mathematics. (photo by Eli Burackian '00)
Great mathematicians of all time. Download the whole set for FREE at:
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The area of London where UK film premieres take place. With loads of cinemas.
This is a bust of Newton in Leicester Square Gardens, near the Odeon West End.
It is a bust of Isaac Newton, by William Calder Marshall (1874).
Newton lived from 1642 to 1727. He was a Scientist, Mathematician and Philospher.
The bust is here because he was supposed to have lived in Leicester Square, when he infact lived nearby at 35 St Martin's Street.
He was President of the Royal Society from 1703 to 26 and was knighted in 1705.
Midnight Moment: Peter Burr, Pattern Language
May 1-31, 2018
every night from 11:57pm-midnight
Pattern Language, built in a video game engine, is a rhythmic, strobing composition in richly patterned black and white. Employing cellular automata and crowd-simulation algorithms, Burr creates a fantastical vision of human life within a labyrinthine “Dirtscraper” – an inverted, underground skyscraper. Indistinct, nongendered figures in shades of grey walk through endless generative levels of lights and right angles, while others fill the screen with dots that bloom or wilt according to the classic “Game of Life” model developed by mathematician John Conway in 1970, in which each cell lives, dies, or revives depending on the “alive” or “dead” states of neighboring cells. This Month's midnight Moment is in partnership with Clocktower Productions.
Photos courtesy of Ka-Man Tse for Times Square Arts
A monument to the Mathematician George Boole located on the High Street, just after the Silver Street crossing, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Although he was recognised as a genius in his own lifetime, it was not until almost a century later that the far-reaching implications of Boole’s work would become apparent. An American electronics engineer named Claude Shannon realised Boole’s logic could be applied in producing electrical circuits: a discovery that started the digital revolution. Today even the most advanced computers and smart devices still depend on Boolean logic.
Boole, the son of John Boole Sr, a shoemaker and Mary Ann Joyce, was born on November 2nd 1815, at 34 Silver Street, Lincoln - his home no longer exists but was near the large nightclub now on the street.
He was christened at St Swithins Church and attended the church in his early life; the minister there encouraged him in his mathematics, lending him a book on differential calculus. A plaque stands in Boole's memory on the site where the church stood when he attended, further along St Swithins Square than the current church building.
He had a primary school education, and received lessons from his father, but had little further formal and academic teaching. William Brooke, a bookseller in Lincoln, may have helped him with Latin, which he may also have learned at the school of Thomas Bainbridge. He was self-taught in modern languages.
Boole opened his own school in 1834 very close to St Swithins Church, on Free School Lane aged just 19. Also nearby was Lincoln Mechanics Institute of which Boole's father was a founding member and where Boole lectured - in the old Grammar School, the Greyfriars.
Boole also founded a school on Pottergate near Lincoln Cathedral which is also where his home is said to have been. It was at this school that Boole conducted his last teaching in Lincoln and where he won the Gold Medal from the Royal Society, in 1844. A plaque is found at 3 Pottergate in Boole's memory.
Boole was keen to further his skills in higher mathematics and, with limited opportunities in Lincoln, took up a professorship at Queen's College Cork, Ireland, moving there in 1849. It was in Cork that he met his wife and started a family, eventually having five daughters. Boole ended his days here on December 8th 1864, dying prematurely aged only 49.
Friends of Boole still in Lincoln raised funds to create a memorial for the mathematician in Lincoln Cathedral: The Teaching Window. The stained glass window, found in the fourth window of the north wall of the cathedral, depicts the calling of Samuel, his favourite Bible passage, at the request of his widow.
Information mostly gained from www.visitlincoln.com/about-lincoln/history-heritage/boole/
Pierre-Louis Lions is a French mathematician. He received his doctorate from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in 1979. He studies the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations, and received the Fields Medal for his mathematical work in 1994 while working at the University of Paris-Dauphine. Lions was the first to give a complete solution to the Boltzmann equation with proof. Other awards Lions received include the IBM Prize in 1987 and the Philip Morris Prize in 1991.
One of the most popular and unusual sculptures in Krakow old town, is that of two gesticulating men seated on the wooden bench. These are the Polish mathematicians Stefan Banach and Otto M. Nikodym, who in 1916 were joined by mathematician Hugo Steinhaus, in a discussion of complex mathematical problems.
Ines is an Edinburgh resident, Spanish by origin, who loves cycling. We met at the Changing Pace weekend ride in E-burgh 08, June 24th.
"The Mathematician" (detail) by Andrey Zakirzyanov
colored pencil on paper
57x 76 cm
1990
My animations & videoart here - www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F07F0FC9A199F76B
Mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and inventor of an early mechanical calculator he called the "Pascaline." (1623-1662.)
Bench Title: TWIN STAR FIELDS by Dahlqvist Designs
Knots and grain in this bench suggest co-orbiting stars and their shared gravitational fields. Your observatory may be an upstairs window, a balcony, the deep dark wilderness of your back yard, or a commanding place on a hill top. Night time star gazing from the hot tub, Jacuzzi, pool or patio, and day time celebration of old Sol’s warmth provides 24 hour pleasure. Share this bench!
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48 inches long x 17 high x 12 wide. This bench employs no metal joints. Fourteen completely invisible birch dowels assure strength sufficient to support a Mack truck. Design as distinctive as your solid gold Rolex President watch.
Finished with deep penetrating Tung oil, Orange oil and beeswax, sealed with lacquer and a hard carnauba wax overcoat.
This unique design strictly follows ancient, yet thoroughly contemporary, Fibonacci Code. Yes, the ancient Greeks, daVinci, Stradivarius, Mozart and a myriad of artists, artisans, architects, mathematicians and scientists of today follow this code to achieve masterful results most pleasing and satisfactory.
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Mathematician Benjamin Peirce
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"German mathematician. One of Leibnitz's great achievements was the development of the binary system of arithmetic. Another significant contribution was his work on dynamics. He also developed differential and integral calculus, although there was serious controversy between him and his contemporary Sir Isaac Newton as to who had worked out the details and explained the proofs first. Leibnitz applied the methods of mathematical proof to other disciplines such as logic and philosophy, and among his lifelong aims were ambitious plans to collate all human knowledge, and to reunite the Church. Caen stone statue by Alexander Munro."
A group of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineers are recognized during the kick off of NASA's Summer of Innovation program at JPL in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, June 10, 2010. Through the program, NASA will engage thousands of middle school students and teachers in stimulating math and science-based education programs with the goal of increasing the number of future scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
National Semiconductor Mathematician from the 1970's.
Uses Reverse Polish Notation (RPN), similar to Hewlett Packard calculators of that era (HP still produce RPN calculators)
"Women of the Past Who Proved the Possibilities Are Vast"
2nd Place Month Long Women's Division
As a women’s organization, we wanted to celebrate women’s accomplishments in STEM fields throughout time: past, present, and future. On the left, you can see Hypatia, the first female mathematician and astronomer from Ancient Rome. On the right, representing the more recent past is one of the women from the ENIAC. A team of six women were given the programming work on the ENIAC: the first fully digital Turing-complete general-purpose computer. This machine was unveiled after World War II and was 2,400 times faster than a human at calculating trajectory. In the middle, we can see a Michigan Tech graduate with a diploma. She represents STEM women in the present and shines a beacon on a bright future for STEM innovation.
Dr. Peter Winkler, a professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. According to JobsRate.com, the best job in the United States is a mathematician. (Sean Hurley, NHPR) Listen to Sean's piece, "The Lumberjack and the Mathematician"
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore,
Florence, Italy
The clock above the main door inside the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, or the Duomo, as it is better known in Florence, is the only one of its kind in working order anywhere in the world. To the modern eye, it looks positively bizarre. At its centre, a golden star decorates the blue disc of the clock’s face, whilst the heads of what are believed to be the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, are encircled at each corner of the dial’s square frame.
The clock has only one hand, running anti-clockwise from the Roman numeral XXIIII at the bottom, which does not indicate midnight. The clock, in fact, registers the ora italica (‘Italian time’), also known as Bohemian time or Julian time, after Julius Caesar’s 46 CE calendar, which began at sunset and ended at sunset.
Thanks to Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, we know that Paolo di Dono (1397–1475), nicknamed ‘Uccello’ because of his love of strange animals and, in particular, birds, was paid 40 lire in February 1443 when he completed frescoing the face of the clock, which is almost 2 meters in diameter and situated 15 meters off the ground. Obsessed as he was with perspective, in this the second of the works this solitary and eccentric painter from Pratovecchio was commissioned to do in the Duomo, Uccello merged light and shadows on each of the prophets’ faces, making the viewer think that light is streaming in from a window (that, in reality, does not exist), high up on the wall to the left of the clock.
Due to its delicacy, the mechanism has required numerous interventions over the years, including a 17th-century addition: a pendulum based on the studies of Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei and Dutch mathematician and horologist Christiaan Huygens. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Transalpine, French or Gregorian system for measuring time was widely used in Northern Europe. Time was measured in units of 12: midnight to noon (ante meridiem) and noon to midnight (post meridiem). The hours were usually represented in Roman numerals and the hands pointing to them operated a left-to-right (or clockwise) movement. This analog system gradually became established as a standard, further reinforced by the spread of mechanical clocks that did not require continuous maintenance.
But Tuscany was not eager to adopt the analog system. Such was the resistance that, in 1749, Grand Duke Francesco Stefano published an edict enforcing this imported method for calculating time and threatening severe punishment to anyone who failed to adopt it. Therefore, during restoration of the mechanism in 1761, Uccello’s clock face was covered by a new 12-hour version. During this modification, the clock’s original gilded copper hand crafted by the artist also disappeared and a new one was made in the shape of a shooting star. Although the original hand was never recovered, in 1973, after a five-year restoration, Uccello’s clock face is again visible and keeping ora italica.