Essays on Algebra

Algebra bears major importance throughout youth and adulthood by providing mental assistance in solving daily tasks quicker, a backbone to other school related subjects, aid in understanding the mathematical work done by others, and by making the obtainment of a job easier along while improving...

Algebra is very complex, and has been a big problem for me ever since I started it in high school. A question that I have asked and many others ask is why do we even need to learn algebra? When you’re figuring out these problems...

In entry one, I am featuring my Pre-Algebra students. There are 53 students total, split between three classes. The students range from 13 to15 years old and are all in eighth grade. The population is composed of 33 males and 20 females. Twenty-five of the...

Hypatia was the earliest female mathematician. She was born 350 CE and died 415 CE. This makes her about 65 years of age. She was the daughter of Theon. He was a mathematician and an astronomer. Theon is most known for his preservation of Euclid’s...

A tree data structure can be defined recursively (locally) as a collection of nodes (starting at a root node), where each node is a data structure consisting of a value, together with a list of references to nodes (the children), with the constraints that no...

Correlations have two properties: strength and direction. The strength of a correlation is determined by its numerical (absolute) value. The direction of the correlation is determined by sign of the correlation coefficient ‘r’, whether the correlation is positive or negative. Correlation standardizes the measure of...

It is often said that one gets lost in the story, or the world, or even own thoughts, but what kind of lost is being referred to? The lost where you get so mixed up in the story, so overwhelmed that you can’t find which...

While it is likely that many calculus students are familiar with the idea of L’Hôpital’s Rule, which is concerned with the calculation of limits that initially result in indefinite forms such as zero over zero or infinite over infinite by taking the derivative of both...

John Napier or John Neper was a Scottish mathematician born on February 1, 1550. He was born at the Merchiston tower near Merchiston Castle, an independent school for suburbian boys of Colinton in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was Sir Archibald Napier and his mother was...

Calculus is the branch of mathematics that study rates of change of objects in the universe. There are two main branches of calculus, differentiation, and integration, these focus on limits, functions, derivatives, and integrals. Calculus has widespread applications in science, economics, and engineering and can...

What is calculus? Calculus came from Latin, which literally means pebble or small stone used in reckoning. Calculus is all about continuous change and its mathematical way of studying it. It is in the same way the study of shape is geometry and the study...

Introduction This paper will be a summary of my findings in answering the questions, “how large can a set with zero ‘length’ be?”. Throughout this paper I will be explaining facts regarding the Cantor set. The Cantor set is the best example to answer this...