HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENT
(Note - All work should be done in assignment notebook)
1. Write an essay on any mathematician and their contribution (except CV Ramanujan and
Aryabhatta).
Answers
Answer:
John von Neumann (1903-1957)
John von Neumann was born János Neumann in Budapest a few years after the start of the 20th century, a well-timed birth for all of us, for he went on to design the architecture underlying nearly every single computer built on the planet today. Right now, whatever device or computer that you are reading this on, be it phone or computer, is cycling through a series of basic steps billions of times over each second; steps that allow it to do things like render internet articles and play videos and music, steps that were first thought up by von Neumann.
Von Neumann received his Ph.D. in mathematics at the age of 22 while also earning a degree in chemical engineering to appease his father, who was keen on his son having a good marketable skill. Thankfully for all of us, he stuck with math. In 1930, he went to work at Princeton University with Albert Einstein at the Institute of Advanced Study. Before his death in 1957, von Neumann made important discoveries in set theory, geometry, quantum mechanics, game theory, statistics, computer science and was a vital member of the Manhattan Project.
Answer:
Brahmagupta
1.He was born in 597AD at bhinmal, Rajasthan.
2.He is the author of the Brahmasphutasiddhanta and khandakhadyaka.
3.He was the first to give rules to compute with zero.
4.He was the head of the astronomical observatory at Ujjain.
5. he passed away in 668AD.
Hope this helps.