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Name: John Pell
Birth Date: 1611
Death Date: 1685
Nationality: English
Occupations: professor, diplomat, vicar

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Biography of John Pell
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John Pell wrote or contributed to several useful books on algebra and the study of mathematics itself. He was particularly known for his work on the algebraic equation, first studied by Brahmagupta, y2=ax2 + 1, where "a" is a non-square integer. Pell...


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John Pell (March 1, 1611 – December 12, 1685), was an English mathematician. He was born at Southwick in Sussex, where his father was minister. He was educated at Steyning Grammar School, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of...


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Mathematics and Computer Education
The Pell sequence
01/01/2002: 429 words, approx. 1 pages
INTRODUCTION In the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences [8 ], one finds under M 1413 the so-called Pell sequence 1, 2, 5, 12, 29, 70, 169, 408, 985, ..., which is defined by the recurrence relation a^sub n+1^, = 2 a^sub n^...
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National Review
Pelle the Conqueror.
05/05/1989: 1,578 words, approx. 5 pages
BILLE AUGUST'S film Pelle the Conqueror won the Golden Palm in Cannes and the Oscar for best foreign film of 1988. The remarkable thing is that, despite these awards, it is a very good film. This adaptation of the first volume of a...
 


 

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