Mathematicians

BY: Sidney Creech

Leone Battista Alberti (1404-1472)

Leone Battista Alberti's father was Lorenzo Alberti.

We do not know who his mother is and there is reason to believe that he's an illegitimate child.

When an decrees hit they left the city to go to Venice which his father die soon after there arriving.

He went to stay with an uncle which disappear shortly after his becoming there. It is said that his family wanted his money.

New city

When the decrees hit Venice he move to a new city

There he met his good friend Brunelleschi There interest were the same because that

when he started to get into mathematicians

Following his Father

Following his father when he moved, he studied classical subjects at the best universities: literature in Venice and Padua, law and Greek in Bologna. From an early age he privately cultivated the most diverse scientific and artistic interests: music, painting, sculpture, architecture, physics, mathematics.

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Gregorius Saint-vincen (1584 1667)

He is also know by his latin name Gregorius Saint-vincent.

We don't know nothing about his early life or family.

He begin his studies at the Jesuit college of Bruges in 1595.

He became a Jesuit novice in 1605

Gregorius

This is the period when science and theology struggled to come to terms argument came to be that the sun is the center installed of the earth.

Galileo's work out an expressed that proud the sun is the center which did not please the leader of the Jesuit order.

Gregorius

At the beginning of February in 1621 his teacher die.

He was ordained a priest in 1613.

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Gertrude Mary Cox(1900-1978)

Gertrude Cox's parents were Allen and Emma Cox

Her family when to Perry, Iowa She when to Perry County High Schools She decided to continue her studies at Iowa

State College

Gertrude

She work with George Snedecor and A E Brandt

In autumn of 1936 Snedecor begin to write his book

That left Gertrude and A E in change of the administrative and consulting tasks in statistics

Gertrude

In 1940 she was appointed professor of statistics at North Carolina State College

She was head of department at North Carolina State College

She was elected a fellow of American statistics Association

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Cited sources

www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cox.html

www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Alberti.html

www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Alberti.html

www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Saint-Vincent.html