When Charles was a child, he had a major interest in algebra, and was overall truly interested and gifted in mathematics. Cabbage attended Trinity College in Cambridge in 1811. ... In this quote he says, "the master manufacturer by dividing the work to be executed into different processes, each requiring different degrees of skill or of force, can purchase exactly that precise quantity of both which is necessary for each process; whereas, if the whole work were executed by one workman, that person must possess sufficient skill to perform the most difficult, and sufficient strength to execute...

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Proclus, the last major Greek philosopher, who lived around 450 AD wrote: Not much younger than these [pupils of Plato] is Euclid, who put together the "Elements", arranging in order many of Eudoxus' theorems, perfecting many of Theaetetus's, and also bringing to irrefutable demonstration the things which had been only loosely proved by his predecessors. ... Brahmagupta distinguished twenty arithmetical operations (logistics), including the extraction of roots and the solution of proportions, and eight measurements (determinations). ... From the al-jabr in the title we get algebra. ...

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Write an equation using the algebraic expressions found in step 5. ... The college bus can seat 50 students or fewer. 4. ... Eveth plans to order boots online and has allotted Php12000 for the purpose. Each pair costs Php 1700 and shipping for the entire order is Php 990. How many pairs of boots can she order without exceeding her limit?...

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In 1642 Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), the 18-year-old son of a tax collector invented what he called a numerical wheel calculator in order to help his father with his taxation duties. ... The loss of interest came about when he realised that the Difference Engine was a special-purpose machine capable of a single operation. ... Atanasoff) and his graduate student (Clifford Berry) envisioned an all-electronic computer that applied Boolean Algebra to computer circuitry. ... He graduated in 1935 at Kings College, Cambridge with a B.A in mathematics and won a Smiths prize in 1936 on a paper he wrote...

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Many crucial systems such as algebra, the Arabic numerals, and the very concept of the zero (vital to the advancement of mathematics), were formulated by Muslim scholars and shared with medieval Europe. ...

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