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Oh I hope it is not too late to register — I’ll be happy to pay any late fees because I desperately want to take PHY 302. I’ve got to learn those three laws! I’ve just been so distracted with the holidays. Happy New Year to the class. Jeff, good luck at Queens.
Leslie
I just want to confirm my class selection. I commented on the correct class and another class by accident. I joined steven’s class on December 21st
I would like to take a mathematics course with Pierre de Fermat. The course would focus on problem solving in various topics such as calculus and algebra. An analytical look at how to approach equations and numbers will be used to help students when they are trying to prove their own theorems in the future. Although Fermat is more of an amature mathematician, The greatest amateur mathematician he possessed the creative mind which was able to contribute to the creation of calculus way before many who are credited with discovering it were even born. In his time he might have been considered a lawyer much more so than a mathematician, but his mark in history will always be in his advancement of modern calculus.
I want to take a physics course with Sir Isaac Newton as an instructor. The three most noted works I found in the blog were: 1) The light is able to be refracted into a spectrum of different colors (Newton). 2) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathamatica, in which Newton described the universal gravitation and the three laws of motion (When an apple falls…), which are the law of inertia, force equals mass times acceleration, and action and reaction (Newton). 3) The creation of calculus (Newtonian View). The course will include three different experiments whose purposes will be to prove each of the three laws of motion, building a reflecting telescope as the one Newton built, an introduction to calculus, and, at the end of the course, and only with those who have shown good performance, a field trip to an apple orchard, so that we can conduct an experiment in which we can determine the earth’s gravity, using apples in the trials. I want this scientist to teach these topics because he was the one who discovered the phenomenons I have described in this paragraph, and thus he would be the most competent to teach them.
References:
Isles878. Newtonian View. 5 November 2007. Dec. 11 2007 <http:www.wordpress.com>.
Karim. When an Apple Falls. 2 November 2007. 11 Dec. 2007 <http:www.wordpress.com>.
Sweetgrl146. Newton. 2 November 2007. 11 Dec. 2007 <http:www.wordpress.com>.
Course Name: Differential and Integral Calculus: An Overview
Professor: Gottfried Leibniz
Course Description: This course will introduce students to calculus and its uses. It will define derivatives as a measurement of how a function changes as its input values change and will demonstrate how to calculate derivatives using modern notation (originally developed by Professor Leibniz). It will define integrals, put simply, as the area under a curve (the linear representation of a function) and between two input points of the function. Most importantly, it will show the relationship between derivatives and integrals through the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus which Professor Leibniz discovered (simultaneously with Newton, but independently). The first part of this theorem shows that indefinite integration can be reversed by differentiation. The second part shows that a definite integral of a function can be computed by using its antiderivatives. Professor Leibniz will demonstrate methods of calculating derivatives and integrals using techniques such as the product rule (which he, again, invented). The course will only touch on the concepts of limits and infinite series as the rigorous use of these ideas only developed after Professor Leibniz’ time.
Publication by Professor Leibniz related to course: “New Method for Maximums and Minimums” 1684
Works Cited:
“Calculus.” En.Wikipedia.org. 15 Nov.2007. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 Nov. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus>.
“Derivative.” En.Wikipedia.org. 12 Nov.2007. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 Nov. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative>.
Glass, Richard. Mat 123: Calculus2. Course home page. Sept. 2007-Dec. 2007. Nov. 2007. Dept. of Mathematics, Nassau Community College. 15 Nov. 2007 http://mat123calc2.wordpress.com/. “I am Willy Leibniz.” 2 Nov. 2007 steevnz kollaz. “Von leibniz.” 5 nov. 2007 docvanwinklen.
“Gottfried Leibniz.” En.Wikipedia.org. 15 Nov.2007. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 Nov. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Leibniz.>
“Integral.” En.Wikipedia.org. 15 Nov.2007. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 Nov. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral>.
Course Name: Differential and Integral Calculus: An Overview
Professor: Gottfried Leibniz
Course Description: This course will introduce students to calculus and its uses. It will define derivatives as a measurement of how a function changes as its input values change and will demonstrate how to calculate derivatives using modern notation (originally developed by Professor Leibniz). It will define integrals, put simply, as the area under a curve (the linear representation of a function) and between two input points of the function. Most importantly, it will show the relationship between derivatives and integrals through the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus which Professor Leibniz discovered (simultaneously with Newton, but independently). The first part of this theorem shows that indefinite integration can be reversed by differentiation. The second part shows that a definite integral of a function can be computed by using its antiderivatives. Professor Leibniz will demonstrate methods of calculating derivatives and integrals using techniques such as the product rule (which he, again, invented). The course will only touch on the concepts of limits and infinite series as the rigorous use of these ideas only developed after Professor Leibniz’ time.
Publication by Professor Leibniz related to course: “New Method for Maximums and Minimums” 1684
Works Cited:
“Calculus.” En.Wikipedia.org. 15 Nov.2007. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 Nov. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus>.
“Derivative.” En.Wikipedia.org. 12 Nov.2007. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 Nov. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative>.
Glass, Richard. Mat 123: Calculus2. Course home page. Sept. 2007-Dec. 2007. Nov. 2007. Dept. of Mathematics, Nassau Community College. 15 Nov. 2007 http://mat123calc2.wordpress.com/. “I am Willy Leibniz.” 2 Nov. 2007 steevnz kollaz. “Von leibniz.” 5 nov. 2007 docvanwinklen.
“Gottfried Leibniz.” En.Wikipedia.org. 15 Nov.2007. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 Nov. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Leibniz.>
“Integral.” En.Wikipedia.org. 15 Nov.2007. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 Nov. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral>.
Mmmm where to start, best at the beginning hello my name is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz I was born June 21st 1646 but was later changed to July 1st because of the new calendar system. I was born Leipzig, Germany to Friedrich Leibniz and Catherina Schmuck my father was a Professor of Moral Philosophy. He died when I was 6 years so my education was through his papers and books he left me. At the age of 14 I studied at the university Leipzig were my father had been a professor I graduated with a law degree at the age of 20.
At this point in my life my upmost goal was a job so I started work as a salaried alchemist even though had no idea what I was doing. Then through Johann Christian von Boineburg I was appointed Assessor in the Court of Appeal by Elector of Mainz in 1669. After the death of von Boineburg I made it my goal to protect German speaking land from the French king, Louie XIV I had formulated a plan to distract the French which involved sending them the after Egypt and then the Dutch east indies. In the process of selling the plan to the French I met many intellects that shaped my later being, Nicolas Malebranche, Antoine Arnauld top French philosophers, mathematician Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus a fellow German and Dutch physicist and mathematician Christiaan Huygens. Through Huygens I realized that my math was poor and with his help I greatly improved my mathematical skill. I was later sent to England were I met Henry Oldenburg and John Collins as well as being made a member of the royal society for the calculus machine I made. I retuned Mainz because of the death of the elector in 1672 the same year von Boineburg died.
I spent 4 years be for arriving at my next position as Counselor to the Duke of Brunswick in Hanover and I have been working for the family ever since. I find myself studying and righting all the time there is very little to do for the duke so he gives my free rein on my interest. I study philosophy, mathematics, physics, European history, linguistics, and geology just to name a few. In mathematics I worked out the integral and the differential others had used similar meatheads for solving geometry problems my system was more grounded and could solve more problems by using the infinitesimals. Another accomplishment I had in mathematics was with probabilities and the creation of the binary system
Works cited:
Garber, Daniel, and Roger Ariew. “Introduction: Leibniz and the Sciences.” Perspectives on Science (Spring-Summer 1998):1(1).General Onefile. Gale. Nassau Community College Library http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=IoF
Josseph, Douglas M. “Leibniz on the foundation of Calculus: the Question of the Reality of Infinitesimal Magnitudes.” Perspective on Science (Spring-Summer 1998): 6(1). General Onefile. Gale Nassau Community College Library http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=ITOF
http://www.wikipedia.org/ “Gottfried Leibniz.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz
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