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A Well Known Genuis – Albert Einstein
Some people help shape the world through their work and their legacy, others completely reform it in a flash with their accomplishments. Albert Einstein was one of the latter, and many scientists believe that people will still be making new discoveries and finding new applications based on his theories for generations to come. Albert Einstein trivia begins with the fact that he was born in 1879 in the German Empire. He was not as many have imagined some kind of child prodigy, although he did show aptitude for mathematics. Einstein’s genius came more from the fact that he worked hard and believed in allowing for free thinking and creativity in learning, something that would make him clash with teachers and members of the educational institutions he attended on more than one occasion, facts likely to appear on any Albert Einstein quiz.
Albert Einstein trivia can be a bit complex for those who are not physicists themselves, simply because most of the mans work and writing were so technical and specific that it can be hard for the non-initiate to grasp the significance of many of these discoveries. His earlier work however, regarded proving the existence of atoms for one, something which was suspected but not entirely accepted by the scientific community, and thermodynamics for a second.
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How to Teach Classroom Mathematics
Some years ago, I got appointment as a Head of Pre-Entry Science Course Department at the Technical University in Balgravia. The Department enrolled the best students from different high school of the country. The objective of the Department was to find students’ gaps in their knowledge of science subjects and upgrade them to university standards. It was pleasure to work in an exotic country on such challenging issues and for a such noble goal.
Once, when I passed by a classroom where mathematics was being taught by a colleague, I heard the voice of the students counting: 4 597, 4 598, 4 599…At that time, I did not pay much attention to it. But after three days, from behind the doors of the same classroom, I heard: 13 127, 13 128, 13 129…
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Maths in Life
‘Mathematics is for the intellectual giants’, is the common belief. This is true as far as the subject mathematics is concerned. But, looking from a different angle, one can find that leading a life without mathematics is impossible, irrespective one’s intellectual level. When mathematics is presented as a complicated cluster of theories and formulas which are difficult to crack and digest, common man is never attracted towards it. But if he understands things closely, the picture changes. Perhaps many may start loving it. That is one reason why mathematics is called the servant of all sciences.(It is also known as the Queen of all sciences).
For an ordinary man the knowledge of mathematics is very often limited to numbers and forms. A new born baby gradually gets familiarized with forms from his (or her) contacts. His mother’s face may be the form that impress him first. The first geometrical form is printed in him through this acquaintance. Similar faces might attract his attention, but not other faces.
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