Mathematicians BY Sidney Creech Leone Battista Alberti 1404

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