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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isacc Newton (English) | • Binomial theorem generalized to exponents.• Finding roots• Best known for feuds with Charles Leibniz over Calculus. |
| Euclid (alexandrian Greek) | • Elements, a textbook on Geometry and Number Theory.• 5 postulates of Space.• Infinitude of prime numbers.• Parallel postulate for creating spheres and hyperbolas |
| Carl Fredrick Gauss (German) | * Prince of Math: when in elementary school, teacher asked him to add 1-100 and he knew.* contributed to every math branch.*Prime Number theorum* fundemental theorem of Algebra. |
| Archimedes (Syracusean Greek) | * Eureka- (byoyency)denisty of a golden crown.* estimated pi* sum of infinite series; method of exhaustion. |
| Gottfried Leibniz (German) | * Calculus despute.* modern calculus notation.* invented binary numbers and symbolic logic. |
| Pierce de Fermat (French) | * contribution to number theory* probabiltiy theory with blaine pascal.* little theorum. |
| Leonard Euler (Swiss) | * prolific output* 7 bridges of konigsburg.* modern notation of e. |
| Kurt Godel (Austrian) | * 2 incompleteness theorem.* true statements if used to prove something. |
| Andrew Wiles (British) | * Tanyima-Shimura theorums:* semi stable eliptical curves are modular.* collory to fermat's theorem. |
| William Rowan Hamilton (Irish) | * complex #s have 4 dimensions.* Quarterions i, j, k |
| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | * Melville Fuller* Man bought first class ticket, but condemned for sitteing in all white zome.* " Our constitution is color blind"* Overturned by Brown v BOE. |
| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | * John Marshall* Judicial Review, nullifying unconstituional laws.* Earlier Judiciuary act conflicted with constitution. |
| Roe v. Wade (1973) | * Warren Burger.* abortion laws. |
| Brown v. BOE (1954) | * Earl Warren* separate but equal ruled unconstitutonal.* girl forced to a black school, when white school was very close by. |
| McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | * John Marshall* Power to tax was power to destroy.* Second bank of US called in loans to states. |
| Baker v. Carr (1962) | * Earl Warren* "one person, one vote"* politics had changed his vote in tennesee. |
| Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) | * Earl Warren* denied lawyer, but given by 6th and 14th.* accused of breakin in pool house. |
| Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) | * Edward White* child labor laws.* childern could not work. |
| Fletcher v. Peck (1810) | * John Marshall* Yazoo river selling* First instance of supreme court struck down state law. |
| Ex parte merryman (1861) | * Roger tanney* Federal Court case* Civil War case. |
| Lepton | * Fundemental Sub atomic particle.* 6 flavors; electron, muon, tauon, and neutrinos of each.* means opposite heavy; light in greek* cannot be broken down any further |
| Quark | * another class of fundemental particles.* 6 flavors; up, down, top, bottom, strange, charm* study of these are quantum dynamics. |
| Baryons | * 3 quarks together ex. protons and neutrons* means heavy in greek.* they are Fermions |
| Mesons | * 2 Quarks together* they are Bosons* Bosons have full integral spin. |
| Fermion | * half integral spin* named after enrico fermi* spin = intrinsic angular momentum |
| Bosons | * full integral spin* named after Sathyendra Nath Bose. |
| Hadrons | * any particle made from Quarks, Ex. Baryons and Mesons* means thick. |
| Gauge Bosons | * Bosons carrying force of nature.* gauge theory= describing the force. |
| Gluons (gluing quarks) | * Gauge bosons that carry strong nuclear force and bind hadrons together.* gluing quarks |
| Partons | * old name for internal parts of Hadrons before discovery of Quark model. |
| Frank Lloyd Wright(1867-1959) | * guggenheim museun in New York.* Kaufman House, wax museum* Organic architecture |
| Walter Gropius(1883- 1969) | * Pan American Building* Banhaus School* Harvard Achitectural department. |
| Ludwig Miles Van der Rohe(1886-1969) | * Lake Shore Drive* Barcelona Pavilion |
| IM PEI(1917) | * Rock and Roll hall of fame, glass pyramid* mile high city denver* came to us in 1935 |
| Sir Christopher Wren(1632-1723) | * Saint Paul's Cathedral* Rebuilt london after great fire.* Astronomy Professor at Oxford. |
| Le Corbusier (1887-1965) | * Villa Savoye, Villa Poissy France* government buildings in Chandigarh and Brassila.* Home is a machine for living in.* Radiant city |
| Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) | * 1891 WainWright Building* skyscapers |
| Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) | * friend of Donatello* Octagonal dome over florence cathedral. |
| Frank Gehry (1929) | * Controversial Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain* Experience Music Project, Walt Disney Conert Park |
| Andrea Paladio (1508-1580) | * Villas near venice.* Villa Rotundo, Villa Barbaro. |
| Eeron Saarinen (1910-1961) | * Gateway Arch, st. louis* MIT and YALE buildings. |
| Antonio Gaudi y Cornet (1852-1926) | * Barcelona buildings. |
| Our Town | * Thorton Wilder* * 3 acts; daily life, love, death |
| Long day's Journy into the night | * Eugene O'Neil* * published after his death |
| Who's afraid of Virginia Wolfe | * Edward Albee* bickering over flawed marriages |
| Street Car named desire | * Tennessee Williams* 2 visions of declining south* Marlon Brando |
| Raisin in the sun | * Lorraine Hansberry* First black play in broadway.* tuned down most racial stereotyping |
| The Crucible | * Arthur Miller* The Salem WItch trials |
| Death of a salesman | * Arthur Miller* Values of success |
| Morning becomes Electra | * Eugene O'Neil* Trilogy |
| The Glass Menagirie | * Tennesee Williams* Refuges reality from glass animals. |
| The ice man Cometh | * Eugene o'neil* iceman= death. |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | * Tennesee Williams* winning estate from Big Daddy. |
| Little Foxes | * Lillie Hellman* capitalism destroys south |
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