In 1903, Marie and Pierre Curie were awarded half the Nobel Prize in Physics. The citation was, in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel..
Elementary algebra is the most basic form of algebra. 1  It is taught to students who are presumed to have no knowledge of mathematics beyond the basic principles of arithmetic. In arithmetic, only numbers and their arithmetical operations (such as +, â, Ã, Ã·) occur.
Ancient math. While many early civilizations, including Islamic, Indian, and Chinese, made important contributions to mathematics, it was the ancient Greeks who invented much of the math we're familiar with. Euclid fathered the geometry we named after himâall those radii and hypotenuses and parallel lines. Archimedes approximated pi.