Jessicanguyen

 Hi everyone, How many people in our class know about Ao Dai? This is traditional dress of Vietnamese women. We wear this Ao dai in special events such as Tet Holiday, weddings.  I want to introduce this special dress to all of you through my drawing. Besides that, the symmetry of math is in this drawing.  This is the picture I took when I was at my old high school. All the teachers need to wear Ao Dai on every Monday.  Here are all the references which I will use for my project.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDuY1phgYlM https://mythuatms.com/hoc-ve--d2525.html https://vannghethainguyen.vn/2018/06/30/hoa-van-tren-trong-dong-dong-son/ http://museum.thanhhoa.gov.vn/portal/Pages/2015-3-30/TRONG-DONG-VIET-NAM5keow4.aspx Who Invented the Bronze Drum? Nationalism, Politics, and a Sino-Vietnamese Archaeological Debate of the 1970s and 1980s (jstor.org) https://www.miu.edu/mathematics/faculty-profiles/catherine-gorini/symmetry-a-link-between-mathematics-and-life ...

 "The Greeks were concerned with the education of free men as future citizens" "The Romans, like the Greeks, seem to have accepted a few basic subjects as worthy of the efforts of free men and to have expected the young citizens to concentrate on such subjects." ""Logistic is the theory which deals with numerable objects and not with numbers. Arithmetic was a study of the universities; logistic was not. Logistic was practical and utilitarian, a study for children and slaves; logic was a liberal art, a study for free men." The order and the selected subjects are different in Roman and Greek. In the first quote, I do not understand what is meaning of free man. And in the third quote, I still do not understand the difference between logistic and logic.  

 1/ The beauty which is mentioned in the poem is the peace and the shapes of shifting lineage.  2/ Why he is still famous in till now. I think the most important discover which Euclide contributed to math is Elements which is the foundation of math.  (Continued....)

  After reading the article “Dancing Euclidean Proofs: Experiments and Observations in Embodied Mathematics Learning and Choreography”, I have two things need to think 1/ “The instructor (Gerofsky) offered a challenge to students to demonstrate the first proposition in Book 1 of Euclid’s Elements as embodied movement, giving attention to the pedagogical affordances of teaching and learning geometry through movement and dance” I wonder that if the instructor can use dancing or body movements to teach all the math problems? Can we have a general algorithm to solve all the geometric math problems? 2/ “Thus mathematical necessity and the constraints of our bodies opened a totally new dimension of our project: the land. Although this new element added beauty, it also added more possibility and thus more decisions. Where is the proof situated — at the level of our outstretched arms, on the ground, or both? “These are questions I also think about too. One more thing is that in the vid...

 After doing our presentation, I have some experience      Our math problem is about Pythagorean Triples. The first step is that each of us tried to solve this problem. It took me 1 day to solve this problem. After comparing the answer with my group, I realized that my solution had some mistakes. Researching made me understand deeper how to solve this problem and the question was asked that the way to solve this problem is in Babylon or in modern period. Finally, our group found out the answer. For me, doing research is an interesting and useful step for knowing ancient math problems.      Actually, before this course I did not know anything about Babylon math period. The interesting thing of Babylon math period is 60-base. Checking Pythagorean formula with Babylonian number helps me to realize that the idea of using Pythagorean formula appeared in Babylon period.   After agreement, I decided to focus on extension. For me, collaboration is so im...

 After reading this article, I was surprised that                 Due to the geographical isolation of China in ancient times, the accepted history of mathematics                in the western world largely ignores their contributions. By examining the history of Chinese                   mathematics, one can see they had an understanding of mathematics similar to that of the                             western world, and Greeks in particular. In cases such as the calculation of π and the proof of                   the right - angle theory, both Chinese and Greeks made astounding discoveries. The most                        ...