Yamini bin Hijau
Yamini vin Hijau, is a grandson of Batin Hitam bin Wahi (the first indigenous sculptor in Malaysia), demonstrating his skill at the Bremen Exhibition, Germany.
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He was born on 1025 and died on 1088. Chronicler whose Annales serve as a highly valuable source for the history of 11th-century Germany.
Educated in Bamber, he joined the Beneditine convent of Hersfeld in March 1058 and was ordained the following fall, travelling to the Holy Land the same year. He moved to the Abbey of Hasungen in 1077, helping to initiate its acceptance of the reforms of the Benedictines’ Cluniac order in 1081.
His Annales Hersveldenses was written around 1077-79, covering the period from creation to 1077. An erudite scholar, he was familiar with and used as historical and rhetorical models the works of the Roman historians Livy, Sallust, and Suetonius. His coverage of the period from Genesis to 1040 is brief, primarily a compilation of other sources; but the events from 1040 to 1077 are highly detailed and based on the annals of the Hersfeld Abbey as well as information from other sources and personal experience. Thus the Annales is extremely valuable as a documentation of both ecclesiastical and political developments in 11th-century Germany, particularly on the relations between the state and the papacy (though criticized for its propapal bias). The Annales (first published in 1525) also is valued for its literary elegance and sophistication and as a primary source on the relations between the holy Roman emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII.
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Niels Henrik Abel ( 1 of 3)
Niels Henrik Abel was a Norwegian mathematician, recognized only after his death as a pioneer in the development of modern mathematics.
Abel was born on August 5, 1802, on the island of Finnǿy, near Stavanger, Norway, where his father was a poor Protestant minister. The family soon moved to the parish of Gjerstad, near the town of Risǿr (southeast Norway), where the boy grew up. In 1815, when he entered the cathedral school in Oslo, his mathematical talent was recognized by a teacher who introduced him to the classics in mathematical literature and proposed original problems for solution. Thoroughly challenged, Abel studied the works of the 17th-century English mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton and the contemporary mathematicians Leonhard Euler (German), Joseph-Louis Lagrange (French), and Carl Friedrich Gauss (German) and learned to detect gaps in their mathematical reasoning.
Although when Abel’s father died in 1820 the family was left in straightened circumstances, the boy was able to enter the University of Christiania (Oslo) in 1821 because his teacher contributed and raised funds.
On graduation from the University in 1822, Abel continued his studies with further subsidies obtained by his teacher. His first papers, published in 1823 in the new periodical Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne, were on functional equations and integrals, his solution of an integral equation being the first. Abel’s friends urged the Norwegian government to grant him a fellowship for study in Germany and France.
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