lesbillgates

Leslie William Gates was born in Aylesbury, England in 1949. In 1972 he graduated from Keble College, Oxford University with an Honours degree in Mathematics. The following year he completed a Post-graduate Certificate in Education at Exeter University. Les has toured the world extensively and has spent more than twelve years in the Solomon Islands and nine years in New Zealand. For most of his working life Les has been a High School teacher of mathematics in New Zealand, England and the Solomon Islands. In 1998, he was appointed Principal of King George VI National Secondary School, Honiara, Solomon Islands. Les married Sarah in 1986. They have three children and five grandchildren. Following the ethnic unrest in Solomon Islands in 2000, Les and his family returned to New Zealand in 2001. Les is now pursuing a new career as an author and freelance writer. Les writes under the pen name of Les Bill Gates. Visit his personal website at https://www.lesbillgates.com and read the first chapter of his book at https://www.lesbillgates.com/hope.html

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Tartaglia

Tartaglia was one of the most colourful characters in the History of Mathematics. Born Niccolò Fontana in the northern Italian town of Brescia in around 1499, he was given the name Tartaglia (which means ‘stammerer’ in Italian) following...

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  Girolamo Cardano

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  Bastard, heretic, gambler, occultist, astrologer, alchemist, father of a murderer, plagiarist, committer of suicide, great mathematician and inventor, Cardano was a man of genius. Girolamo Cardano was born in Pavia, Italy in 1501, the...

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  Luchorpans and Cluricauns, Variations on the Leprechauns of Irish Mythology

  22 months ago

  Just as the Hobbits are central characters in JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’, so are the Luchorpans central characters in ‘Windows on Our World’, the fantasy trilogy of Les Bill Gates. So, what is a Luchorpan? Luchorpan is...

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  Democritus

  22 months ago

  The beginnings of the integral calculus do not belong with the great 17th century mathematicians, Newton and Leibniz, or with their immediate precursors such as Cavalieri, nor even to ‘The Method’ of Archimedes. They can be traced back to a...