- •Міністерство освіти і науки, молоді та спорту україни
- •Contents
- •Foreword
- •Unit 1: University.
- •The National Technical University of Ukraine
- •In small groups or pairs discuss the following questions.
- •Essential help
- •Unit 2:Imperial English: the Language of Science.
- •English language − around the world
- •If you have any difficulties, see Appendix 7.
- •Imperial english: the language of science?
- •What is the nature of Artificial Languages?
- •Unit 3: The Mind Machine?
- •The mind machine?
- •In pairs ask and answer questions based on the text "How to boost your memory" (Further Reading, unit 3).
- •Сша створюють комп'ютер з мозком людини Компанія ibm оголосила про початок роботи над комп'ютером, що працює за принципом людського мозку. Дослідження фінансується з державного бюджету сша.
- •Unit 4: iq testing
- •In pairs or small groups, try to find the answers to the following brain boosters.
- •Interesting facts about iq tests
- •Rational intelligence
- •Emotional intelligence
- •Financial intelligence
- •Unit 5: The Principal Elements of the Nature of Science: Dispelling the Myths.
- •The principal elements of the nature of science: dispelling the myths
- •In pairs ask and answer questions based on the text "Sir Isaac Newton" (Further Reading to unit 5).
- •Unit 6: Beauty in Science.
- •In the article below, find 3 adjectives, 3 adverbs, an adjective in the superlative degree, 3 irregular verbs and 3 prepositions.
- •A thing of beauty
- •Unit 7: Mathematics − the Language of Science.
- •Who invented math?
- •Mathematics − the language of science
- •П'єр Ферма
- •Unit 8: Recreational Mathematics.
- •Quadramagicology
- •1. Building on the Elbe in Hamburg-Altona, Germany
- •3. Crooked house, Sopot, Poland
- •Unit 9: The Dawn of Atomic Physics.
- •The dawn of atomic physics
- •Imagine that you are a great scientist working in a certain field of physics. You are invited to the university to tell students about your research or discovery.
- •In pairs ask and answer questions based on the text "The Famous Work of Ernest Rutherford" (Further Reading, unit 9).
- •Appendix 1: Further Reading unit 1 From the History of the National Technical University of Ukraine
- •The British Higher Education
- •Americans and Higher Education
- •Unit 2 Later Lingua Franca
- •Language and Science
- •Most Frequently Viewed Questions about English What is the Oxford Comma?
- •What is the difference between Street and Road?
- •Is there An Official Committee which regulates the English language, like the Académie française does for French?
- •Unit 3 How to Boost your Memory
- •Unit 4 Parts of an iq Test
- •Verbal Intelligence
- •Mathematical Ability
- •Spatial Reasoning Skills
- •Visual/Perceptual Skills
- •Darwin's Flowers
- •The First Vaccination
- •Unit 7 Who Created the Quadratic Formula?
- •Mathematical Problems
- •Who Created the Quadratic Formula?
- •The Formula Moves to Europe
- •The Importance of the Formula
- •Unit 8 a Brief History of Magic Squares
- •Unit 9 The Famous Work of Ernest Rutherford
- •Top 10 Breakthroughs in Physics for 2011
- •1St place: Shifting the morals of quantum measurement
- •2Nd place: Measuring the wavefunction
- •3Rd place: Cloaking in space and time
- •4Th place: Measuring the universe using black holes
- •5Th place: Turning darkness into light
- •6Th place: Taking the temperature of the early universe
- •7Th place: Catching the flavour of a neutrino oscillation
- •8Th place: Living laser brought to life
- •9Th place: Complete quantum computer made on a single chip
- •10Th place: Seeing pure relics from the Big Bang
- •Appendix 2: Mini-Grammar the verb “to be”
- •The verb “to have”
- •Present form of have got
- •Present form of have
- •The active voice
- •We use present forms
- •Time expressions for present forms
- •We use past forms
- •Time expressions for past forms
- •We use future forms
- •Numerals
- •Articles
- •The possessive case присвійний відмінок
- •The Common Case The Possessive Case
- •Appendix 3: Irregular Verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Irregular verbs
- •Appendix 4: Abbreviations and Shortenings
- •Appendix 5: Mathematical Symbols and Expressions
- •Appendix 6: Measurement
- •America
- •Australia and oceania
- •Mini-Dictionary unit 1 University
- •The National Technical University of Ukraine
- •Imperial English: the Language of Science
- •Unit 3 The Mind Machine?
- •Iq Testing
- •Unit 5 The Principal Elements of the Nature of Science: Dispelling the Myths
- •Unit 6 Beauty in Science
- •Unit 7 Mathematics − the Language of Science
- •Unit 8 Recreational Mathematics
- •Unit 9 The Dawn of Atomic Physics
- •Possible Phrases for Conversational Practice
- •Problem-Solving
- •Unit 3 What's your brain power?
- •Unit 5 a famous puzzler's logic
- •If you took three apples from a basket that held 13 apples, how many apples would you have?
- •If nine thousand, nine hundred and nine pounds is written as £9,909, how should twelve thousand, twelve hundred and twelve pounds be written?
- •Cats & Dogs
- •Unit 8 Numbers Quiz
- •Unit 9 Science Quiz: General Physics
- •Physics Quiz
- •Scripts
- •Studies and degrees in great britain
- •Lingua franca: many languages for many different roles
- •Human brain vs. The computer
- •History of intelligence testing
- •Nikola tesla the genius who lit the world
- •Primordial soup
- •Nasa inventions you might use every day
- •Mathematics
- •Hip to be square: rubik's cubes and sudoku
- •Physics
- •References
The Formula Moves to Europe
This early version of the quadratic formula was carried to Europe in 1100 AD by a Jewish Mathematician / Astronomer from Barcelona named Abraham bar Hiyya. As the Renaissance raged on in Europe, interest and attention began to be focused on unique mathematical problems. Girolamo Cardano began to compile the work on the quadratic equation in 1545.
Cardano was one of the best algebraists of his time. He compiled the works of Al-Khwarismi and Euclidian geometry and blended them into a form that allowed for imaginary number. This inclusion also allowed for the existence of complex numbers.
Complex numbers are also called imaginary numbers and are primarily used for taking the square root of a negative number. This derivation and blending of mathematical knowledge resulted in the creation of the quadratic formula that we now recognize and use for calculating polynomial equations of powers of two.
The Importance of the Formula
The development of the quadratic formula and its solution took over 3000 years of work by mathematicians. Granted the work wasn’t done on a full time basis, but the formula was studied throughout this time and mathematicians did make significant progress over that period.
Looking back now and realizing how much time it took to come to an explicit mathematical derivation and solution to the quadratic formula, it is amazing that the ancient cultures were able to solve their problems without the aid of solutions like the formula.
Unit 8 a Brief History of Magic Squares
Magic squares have a rich history dating to around 2200 B.C. A Chinese myth claimed that while the Chinese Emperor Yu was walking along the Yellow River, he noticed a tortoise with a unique diagram on its shell. The Emperor decided to call the unusual numerical pattern lo shu. The earliest magic square on record, however, appeared in the first-century book Da-Dai Liji.
Magic squares in China have been used in various areas of study, including astrology; divination; and the interpretation of philosophy, natural phenomena, and human behavior. Magic squares also permeated other areas of Chinese culture. For example, Chinese porcelain plates on display in museums and private collections were decorated with Arabic inscriptions and magic squares.
Magic squares most likely traveled from China to India, then to the Arab countries. From the Arab countries, magic squares journeyed to Europe, then to Japan. Magic squares in India served multiple purposes other than the dissemination of mathematical knowledge. For example, Varahamihira used a fourth-order magic square to specify recipes for making perfumes in his book on seeing into the future, Brhatsamhita (ca. 550 A.D.). The oldest dated third-order magic square in India appeared in Vrnda's medical work Siddhayoga (ca. 900 A.D.), as a means to ease childbirth.
Little is known about the beginning of research on magic squares in Islamic mathematics. Treatises in the ninth and tenth centuries revealed that the mathematical properties of magic squares were already developed among what were then Islamic Arabic-speaking nations. Further, history suggests that the introduction of magic squares was entirely mathematical rather than magical. The ancient Arabic designation for magic squares, wafq ala'dad, means "harmonious disposition of the numbers." Later, during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Islamic mathematicians made a grand leap forward by proposing a series of simple rules to create magic squares. The thirteenth century witnessed a resurgence in magic squares, which became associated with magic and divination. This idea is illustrated in the following quotation by Camman, who speaks of the spiritual importance of magic squares:
If magic squares were, in general, small models of the Universe, now they could be viewed as symbolic representations of Life in a process of constant flux, constantly being renewed through contact with a divine source at the center of the cosmos.
Considerable interest in magic squares was also evident in West Africa. Magic squares were interwoven throughout the culture of West Africa. The squares held particular spiritual importance and were inscribed on clothing, masks, and religious artifacts. They were even influential in the design and building of homes. In the early eighteenth century, Muhammad Ibn Muhammad, a well-known astronomer, mathematician, mystic, and astrologer in Muslim West Africa, took an interest in magic squares. In one of his manuscripts, he gave examples of, and explained how to construct, odd-order magic squares.
During the fifteenth century, the Byzantine writer Manuel Moschopoulos introduced magic squares in Europe, where, as in other cultures, magic squares were linked with divination, alchemy, and astrology. The first evidence of a magic square appearing in print in Europe was revealed in a famous engraving by the German artist Albrecht Dürer. In 1514, Dürer incorporated a magic square into his copperplate engraving Melencolia I in the upper-right corner.
Chen Dawei of China launched the beginning of the study of magic squares in Japan with the import of his book Suan fa tong zog, published in 1592. Because magic squares were a popular topic, they were studied by most of the famous wasan, who were Japanese mathematics experts. In Japanese history, the oldest record of magic squares was evident in the book Kuchi-zusam, which described a 3-by-3 square.
During the seventeenth century, serious consideration was given to the study of magic squares. In 1687-88, a French aristocrat, Antoine de la Loubere, studied the mathematical theory of constructing magic squares. In 1686, Adamas Kochansky extended magic squares to three dimensions. During the latter part of the nineteenth century, mathematicians applied the squares to problems in probability and analysis. Today, magic squares are studied in relation to factor analysis, combinatorial mathematics, matrices, modular arithmetic, and geometry. The magic, however, still remains in magic squares.