Biography of Pierre de Fermat… William James… Rufino Arellanes Tamayo… Richard Bach…

Biography of Pierre de Fermat

(1601/08/17 - 1665/01/12)

Pierre de Fermat
French mathematician

He was born August 17, 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne.
He studied law at the universities of Toulouse, Bordeaux and Orléans, where he graduated in 1631. He worked in the Parliament of Toulouse, of which he was Director (1634). In 1638 he was a member of the Criminal Court and only devoted to the Math in his spare time.
In 1636, he proposed a system of analytic geometry, similar to one of René Descartes. It is credited with the creation of analytic geometry (application of symbolic algebra to geometry) who wrote about these topics before Descartes had published his work on the subject losing the priority. His work is based on a reconstruction of the work of Apollonius , used in the algebra of Viète. He claimed to have discovered a test but that there was enough page margin to give the. Many mathematicians have tried, without success try this theorem, which States that given the equation:
Xn + Yn = Zn
It is not possible to satisfy it for integer values of x and y when n > 2. Like this much of Fermat's theorems concerning whole numbers or fractions. This theorem stated figure in the Mathematical Opera Varia (1679), posthumously published text.
Pierre de Fermat died January 12, 1665, in Castres, France.

Biography of William James

(1842/01/11 - 26/08/1910)

William James
American psychologist and philosopher

He was born on January 11, 1842 in New York. Son of Henry James, theologian follower of Emanuel Swedenborg; one of his brothers was the great novelist Henry James.
He studied in the United States private schools and in Europe, in the Lawrence scientific school at Harvard University and at the school of medicine from Harvard where he graduated in 1869.
Without finishing his medical studies, he left with an expedition of exploration to Brazil along with Louis Agassiz, also studied Physiology in Germany. He was Professor of Physiology at Harvard in 1872. From 1880 he taught psychology and philosophy at Harvard University who left in 1907.
His first book, Principles of Psychology (1890), made him one of the most influential thinkers of his time. Their empirical methods of research applied to religious and philosophical subjects. It addressed questions as the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, free will, and ethical values. He wrote the will to believe and other essays on popular philosophy (1897), human immortality (1898) and the varieties of religious experience (1902), pragmatism: a new name for the old ways of thinking (1907).
Opposed absolute metaphysical systems and criticized monism. In essays on radical empiricism (published in 1912), he defended a plural universe. At the end of his life he was a philosopher and psychologist famous around the world. His pragmatic philosophy was developed by the American philosopher John Dewey, among others.
William James died in Chocorua, New Hampshire, on August 26, 1910.

Biography of Rufino Tamayo

(1899-08-26 - 1991/06/24)

Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Arellanes Tamayo
Mexican painter

He was born on August 26, 1899 in Oaxaca, Mexico. His mother Florentina Tamayo died in 1907 and was in the care of his aunt Amalia, with whom he lived from 1911 in the capital of the Republic.
In 1917 he enrolled at the Academia de San Carlos, alternating his studies with the attention of a business of fruit in the market of la Merced.
Early painted works of smaller dimensions and then evolves towards a brighter colour and with a social theme. He regained the easel paintings, which combined with the mural of a social nature, as the revolution (1938, Museo Nacional de Antropología). In works such as Women of Tehuantepec (1939, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York State), has a strong and monumental figures of traditional Mexican art in a subtle and complex composition inspired by French Cubism.
He received commissions for large wall decorations as a tribute to the race (1952), in Paris, or Mexico today (1953, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico) and other murals as America (1956, Southwest Bank, in Houston), the bigger that executed, and for the new building of the UNESCO in Paris performed Prometheus (1958) and, subsequently, total Eclipse (1977).
In 1943 he began to paint abstract art with nature and the artist (Smith College Collection, Northampton, Massachusetts).
He joined the National College on May 12, 1991. Honorary doctorates from the universities of Manila, in 1974; the national Autonoma de Mexico, in 1979; and San Francisco, CAL. EUA, in 1982. Was given, also the National award of Arts (1964) and Colouste Gulbekian, by the Institute of Arts of Paris (1969); the Legion of Honor of France (1970); the degree of Commander by the Italian Republic (1971).
Rufino Tamayo died on June 24, 1991 in the City of Mexico.

Biography of Richard Bach

(1936/06/23 - Unknown)

Richard Bach
American writer

He was born on June 23, 1936 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States.
Son of Roland Robert and Ruth Helen Shaw. Just as a child his parents move to Long Beach, California.
He studied at Long Beach State College. In 1955 he graduated from the University of the State as a mechanic. In 1957, it becomes the pilot of the air force which remains in active service until 1962. Then it starts as a writer to write articles for magazines specializing in aviation. In 1963 he becomes editor of the revista Fliying.
Author of Juan Salvador Gaviota. He has managed to describe as none values such as freedom, love and hope through his works with great acceptance of the readers. The gull has been to more than 30 million readers symbol of freedom since Richard Bach book was 'best-seller' unchallenged in 1973.
He was instructor of flight, pilot, mechanic of aviation in Iowa. In 1970 he has Chairman of the airline Trans-creature. There he worked also as a stunt pilot at the Creature Enterprises. Inc. In 1974 it acts as pilot of air shows and in 1975 is linked to the Embry Riddle University as a philosophy of flying instructo.
On August 31, 2012, was injured in an accident during a landing on San Juan Island, Washington. His plane, N346PE, a 2008 Easton Gilbert G SEAREY he nicknamed "Puff", crashed in a field, causing a small fire. He suffered an injury in the head and shoulder remain hospitalized for four months. In 2014 issued its long-awaited sequel of illusions (1977), which was titled Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student, in which chronicles his accident.
He has won many literary awards in the United States and Europe.
He had six children with his first wife. His second wife was actress Leslie Parrish, who he met during the filming of the movie "Juan Salvador Gaviota" in 1973. During their courtship, he wrote "the bridge to the infinite". He remarried in 1999 with 63 years with Sabryna Nelson-Alexopoulos in 29 years. In his book Chronicle of ferrets, the Huron protagonist is called Bethany, as one of his six children, who died in a traffic accident.