The Person Above You

[float]

missed all of the lyric references

[Paper Hearts]

doesn't know that I have a whole box of those things

[float]

has a box of secrets, which are mostly sucrets

[Paper Hearts]

goes: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRICOLA!!!!

[float]

took the stick out of gum, and put the fresh in your breath

[phee]

Is airy

[Paper Hearts]

borrowed something from god and it was probably a toothbrush

[Brenda Starrr]

Shaves his tongue cuz chicks don't dig fur all THAT much.

[Paper Hearts]

has a tongue like a cat

[phee]

The birth-year of Paper Hearts is commonly given as 1227, but he was probably born early in 1225 at his father's castle of Roccasecea (75 m. e.s.e. of Rome) in Neapolitan territory. He died at the monastery of Fossanova, one mile from Sonnino (64 m. s.e. of Rome), Mar. 7, 1274. His father was Count Landulf of an old high-born south Italian family, and his mother was Countess Theodora of Theate, of noble Norman descent. In his fifth year he was sent for his early education to the monastery of Monte Cassino, where his father's brother Sinibald was abbot. Later he studied in Naples. Probably in 1243 he determined to enter the Dominican order; but on the way to Rome he was seized by his brothers and brought back to his parents at the castle of S. Giovanni, where he was held a captive for a year or two and besieged with prayers, threats, and even sensual temptation to make him relinquish his purpose. Finally the family yielded and the order sent Thomas to Cologne to study under Albertus Magnus, where he arrived probably toward the end of 1244. He accompanied Albertus to Paris in 1245, remained there with his teacher, continuing his studies for three years, and followed Albertus at the latter's return to Cologne in 1248. For several years longer he remained with the famous philosopher of scholasticism, presumably teaching. This long association of Thomas with the great polyhistor was the most important influence in his development; it made him a comprehensive scholar and won him permanently for the Aristotelian method. In 1252 probably Thomas went to Paris for the master's degree, which he found some difficulty in attaining owing to attacks, at that time on the mendicant orders. Ultimately, however, he received the degree and entered ceremoniously Upon his office of teaching in 1257; he taught in Paris for several years and there wrote certain of his works and began others. In 1259 he was present at an important chapter of his order at Valenciennes, At the solicitation of Pope Urban IV. (therefore not before the latter part of 1261), he took up his residence in Rome. In 1269-71 he was again active in Paris. In 1272 the provincial chapter at Florence empowered him to found a new studium generale at such place as he should choose, and he selected Naples. Early in 1274 the pope directed Mm to attend the Council of Lyons and he undertook the journey, although he was far from well. On the way he stopped at the castle of a niece and there became seriously ill. He wished to end his days in a monastery and not being able to reach a house of the, Dominicans he was carried to the Cistercian Fossanova. There, first, after his death, his remains were preserved.

[Paper Hearts]

has given away my address

[Msterbeau]

Didn't really read phee's post.

[Paper Hearts]

wants to list his complete in the location area

[phee]

Float was born in Brunswick, Germany, to a poor, unknown family. His father worked at various jobs as a stone cutter, gardener, canal worker, and foreman for a masonry firm. He was to follow in his father's foot steps, but eventually his father conceded to allow his gifted son to receive an education.

Born with a natural knack for math and reasoning, he was a child prodigy. At his first arithmetic class, he instantly solved the sum of numbers from one to one-hundred. Float new as much as his teachers at age ten, so there was nothing more they could teach him. Influential people were aroused by his genius. One in particular was Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick who became his patron for many years. Ferdinand's patronage allowed Gauss to attend the preparatory school of Caroline College. While here he formulated the method of least squares, but this discovery was shared with Legendre who published it first in 1806 in Nouvelles Methods pour la Determination des Orbites des Cometes.

He went on to the University of Gottingen for the three years between 1795 and 1798. He wasn't sure whether to be a mathematician or a classical linguist until March 30, 1796, when he discovered that a 17-sided polygon could be made from "Euclidian tools"-straightedge and compass, which was the first since Euclid's time. Extremely proud of this discovery, he wanted it put on his tombstone, but this wasn't carried out. Instead the city of Brunswick erected a monument to him, and on the base there is a 17-pointed star, because the stone-mason was afraid the 17-sided polygon would look like a circle. He studied under Abraham Kastner, who understood little of Float's research, so he basically worked alone. Trying to interest his professor, Float told him he had solved a seventeenth-degree algebraic equation to construct a regular 17-gon, but the professor replied it was impossible.

Float returned to Brunswick in 1798 where he performed an unstable career in tutoring. Duke Ferdinand gave him a fixed pension upon Float's failure to gain pupils, allowing him to devote his life to scientific study. He became acquainted with Johann Fredrich Pfaff, the most well known mathematician in Germany at the time, on his frequent visits to the University of Helmstadt's mathematical library. Float's first publication of scientific work was written ostensibly under Pfaff in 1799, and was the dissertation he is most famous for, "New Proof of the Theorem That Every Integral Rational Function of One Variable Can Be Decomposed into Real Factors of the First or Second Degree". Because of this, he received a doctorate from Helmstadt without the examination. This was the first considerable proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra. Float continued making more mathematical discoveries, and finally published them in 1801 in the book that achieved him the recognition as a mathematical genius when he was only 24 years old: Disquisitiones Arithmeticae.

Float's achievements were extraordinary in theoretical astronomy rather than mathematics. For the next twenty years he immersed himself in this subject. He created a theory of planetary and cometary orbit that included the gravitational affect of the planets as well as of the sun. With this he calculated the orbits of planetoids between Mars and Jupiter. His second book of genius was Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium in Sectionibus Conicus Solem Ambietium (Theory of the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies About the Sun in Conic Sections) in which he published his method of orbital determination that handled errors through the least squares method. Neptune was the first planet discovered through the use of this method.

In 1806 the Duke of Brunswick, Float's patron, was killed in the Battle of Jena. This forced Float to pursue a job that would support his family. His friends helped him get a job in the new observatory at the University of Gottingen that he held until his death in 1855. Napolean's triumph at Jena allowed him to asses hefty taxes on captured Germany. Float could not pay the 2000-Franc fine, but Laplace paid it for him as a favor to his friend. Float hated the French, so he paid Laplace back with interest as soon as he could. He studied other subjects as well: physics, mechanics, and theoretical astronomy, and made many discoveries in these areas.

[Paper Hearts]

just made an important discovery

[soothsayer]

Dances with the devil with the blue dress on.

[Paper Hearts]

he's just really happy you came and saw him

[phee]

Turned around

[soothsayer]

Learned how to tune a piano but can't tuna fish.

[Paper Hearts]

has been over to the fax 14 times today and hasn't seen it

[phee]

Is a fan of tire fires

[Paper Hearts]

would love to get a chance to make you pay for that

[phee]

Has a semblence to Johnny Appleseed

[Brenda Starrr]

Would love a chance to....nevermind

[phee]

Likes apples