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2 days ago · 1.1 Monge’s Formulation. In his celebrated work in 1781, Gaspard Monge introduced the concept of transport maps starting from the following practical question: Assume one extracts soil from the ground to build fortifications. What is the cheapest possible way to transport the soil?
3 days ago · But American mathematician Ray Solomonoff had more ambitious goals at that age. He wanted to find a method to solve every conceivable scientific problem. This was not just wishful thinking—the ...
2 days ago · The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light only in a few locales.
2 days ago · Several months after the revolt of Cairo in 1798, inventor Nicolas-Jacques Conté and mathematician Gaspard Monge built a hot air balloon from paper, coloured with the tricolour red, white and blue of the French Republic.
6 days ago · Euler worked in almost all areas of mathematics, including geometry, infinitesimal calculus, trigonometry, algebra, and number theory, as well as continuum physics, lunar theory, and other areas of physics.
3 days ago · A service of the NDSU Department of Mathematics, in association with the American Mathematical Society.
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3 days ago · Pascal’s triangle, in algebra, a triangular arrangement of numbers that gives the coefficients of any binomial expansion, such as (x + y)^n. It is named for the 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal, but it has been known since the 11th century.
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