Biography of Virginia Wolf

Virginia Woolf, original name in full Adeline

Virginia Stephen, was born on January 25,
1882 in London, England. She is an English
writer whose novels, through their nonlinear
approaches to narrative, exerted a major
influence on the genre.

Early Life and Influences

Virginia was the child of ideal Victorian parents.
Her father, Leslie Stephen, was an eminent
literary figure and the first editor of the Dictionary
of National Biography while her mother, Julia
Jackson, possessed great beauty and reputation
for saintly self-sacrifice. Virginia have four
siblings. She was the 3rd child. Virginia was
jealous of her younger brother, Adrian, for being their mother’s favourite.
At age nine, she was the genius behind a family newspaper. Her mother died in
1895 at age 49. Virginia, at 13, ceased writing amusing accounts of family
news. Almost a year passed before she wrote a cheerful letter to her brother
Thoby. She was just emerging from depression when, in 1897, her half-sister
Stella Duckworth died at age 28, an event Virginia noted in her diary as
“impossible to write of.” Then in 1904, after her father died, Virginia had a
nervous breakdown.
In 1906, her brother Thoby died and she grieved but did not slip into
depression. She overcome the loss of Thoby and the loss of Vanessa through
writing.

Early Fiction
Virginia Stephen determined in 1908 to “re-form” the novel by creating a holistic
from the Victorian novel. While writing anonymous reviews for the Times
Literary Supplement and other journals, she experimented with such a novel,
which she called Melymbrosia. In the summer of 1911, Leonard Woolf returned
from the East. After he resigned from the colonial service, Leonard and Virginia
married in August 1912. She continued to work on her first novel; she wrote the
anticolonialist novel The Village in the Jungle (1913) and The Wise Virgins
(1914), a Bloomsbury expose. Then she became a political writer and an
advocate for peace and justice.
Between 1910 and 1915, Viginia’s mental health was precarious. Nevertheless,
she completely recast Melymbrosia as The Voyage Out in 1913. She based
many of her novel’s caharcters on real-life prototypes. In September 1913,
Viginia provoked a suicide attempt due to her manic-depressive worries that
she was a failure as a writer and a woman, that she was despised by Vanessa
and unloved by Leonard. The in April 1915, she sank into a distressed state in
which she was often delirious.

Virginia had kept a diary, off and on, since 1897. In 1919 she envisioned “the
shadow of some kind of form which a diary might attain to,” organized not by a
mechanical recording of events but by the interplay between the objective and
the subjective. Her diary, as she wrote in 1924, would reveal people as
“splinters & mosaics; not, as they used to hold, immaculate, monolithic,
consistent wholes.”
Woolf’s many essays about the art of writing and about reading itself today
retain their appeal to a range of, in Samuel Johnson’s words, “common”
(unspecialized) readers. Woolf’s collection of essays The Common Reader
(1925) was followed by The Common Reader: Second Series (1932; also
published as The Second Common Reader). She continued writing essays on
reading and writing, women and history, and class and politics for the rest of her
life. Many were collected after her death (March 28, 1941) in volumes edited by
Leonard Woolf.
 Biography of Terence Tao
Terence Tao, (born July 17, 1975, Adelaide,
Australia), Australian mathematician
awarded a Fields Medal in 2006 “for his
contributions to partial differential equations,
combinatorics, harmonic analysis and
additive number theory.”
By the time Terry reached the age of
eleven, he was dividing his time between his
studies at Blackwood High School and
taking classes at Flinders University in
Adelaide where he was taught by Garth
Gaudry. Even earlier, at the age of ten, he
began participating in International
Mathematical Olympiads. He won a bronze medal in 1986, a silver medal in
1987 and a gold medal in 1988, becoming the youngest ever gold medalist in
the Mathematical Olympiad. At the age of fourteen he began full-time university
studies at Flinders University and was awarded a B.Sc. with Honours in
December 1991. He continued to study at Flinders University for a Master's
Degree advised by Garth Gaudry and was awarded the degree in August 1992
having written the thesis Convolution operators generated by right-monogenic
and harmonic kernels. He was awarded the University Medal by Flinders
University and a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship to enable him to undertake
research in the United States.
Tao undertook research at Princeton University advised by Elias Stein. He was
an assistant researcher at Princeton during 1993-94 and he was awarded a
Sloan Postgraduate Fellowship in 1995. He was awarded his doctorate in June
1996 for his thesis Three regularity results in harmonic analysis. In 1996 his
research papers began to appear in print, four papers being published in that
year. These are: Weak-type endpoint bounds for Riesz means; (with Andrew C
Millard) On the structure of projective group representations in quaternionic
Hilbert space; On the almost everywhere convergence of wavelet summation
methods; and Convolution operators on Lipschitz graphs with harmonic kernels.
Following the award of his doctorate, Tao was appointed Hedrick Assistant
Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, a position he held from
1996 to 1998. He continued as an assistant professor at the University of
California at Los Angeles where, at the age of twenty-four, he was promoted to
full professor in 2000. In 2007 he was named the James and Carol Collins
Professor there.
It is very difficult to write a biography of someone who is at the height of their
creative powers as Tao is. Anything that one writes about his research
contributions will be quickly outdated as he is contributing major results in such
a wide range of different areas. Yet he has produced such a fantastic collection
of results, leading to the award of all the top prizes in mathematics, that one
must try to at least give a vague picture of the work of this remarkable
mathematician. Before looking at his contributions we note the prizes and
awards he has received (although again this list is bound to become rapidly
outdated as he continues to receive awards). These include: the Salem Prize
(2000); the Bôcher Memorial Prize from the American Mathematical Society
(2002); the Clay Research Award from the Clay Mathematical Institute (2003);
the Levi L Conant Award from the American Mathematical Society (2005); the
Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2005); the ISAAC Award from the
International Society of Analysis, its Application and Computation (2005); the
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2006); the Fields Medal (2006); the Ostrowski Prize
from the Ostrowski Foundation (2007); the Alan T Waterman Award from the
National Science Foundation (2008); the Onsager Medal(2008); the Information
Theory Society Paper Award (2008); the Convocation Award from Flinders
University Alumni Association (2008); the King Faisal International Prize
(Mathematics) (2010); the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics from Northwestern
University (2010); and the George Polya Prize from the Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics (2010). In addition, he has received a Sloan
Foundation research Fellowship (1999-2001), a Foundation Fellowship from the
David and Lucille Packard Foundation (1999-2006), and a MacArthur
Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation (2007-11). He has been elected to
the Australian Academy of Sciences (2006), to a fellowship of the Royal Society
(2007), to the National Academy of Sciences (2008), and to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009). He was a finalist in Australian of the
Year in 2007.
Tao’s work is characterized by a high degree of originality and a diversity that
crosses research boundaries, together with an ability to work in collaboration
with other specialists. His main field is the theory of partial differential equations.
Those are the principal equations used in mathematical physics. For example,
the nonlinear Schrödinger equation models light transmission in fibre optics.
Despite the ubiquity of partial differential equations in physics, it is usually
difficult to obtain or rigorously prove that such equations have solutions or that
the solutions have the required properties. Along with that of several
collaborators, Tao’s work on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation established
crucial existence theorems. He also did important work on waves that can be
applied to the gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of
general relativity. Tao’s other awards include a Salem Prize (2000) and an
American Mathematical Society Bocher Memorial Prize (2002).
Cleofe Jane Patnubay was the second child of Delia Patnubay. She was born
on June 7, 1999. She grew up in a not so wealthy family. At the age of 2, her
father died due to cardiac arrest so her mother needs to work harder and strive
more to provide all their needs.
At age 4, her first teacher was her own mother. Her mother trained her very well
that when she entered pre-school, she was an achiever. It made her mother
even happier. Her achievements continued until her elementary days. Her
situation, being deprived of money and wealth, was her motivation in making
her studies successful.
Seeing her mother carrying a sack full of coals, peddling it to gain some money,
melted her heart and make her realize that her education will be the way to
overcome the struggles they were facing. So Cleofe promised to herself that
she will finish her studies and relief from hardships. In order for her to help her
mother support her studies, she tutors children, sells foods, make the projects
of her friends and she applied to different scholarships. Gladly, she was
qualified. Those strategies were very helpful and effective to give her financial
assistance.
During summer, she become a vendor and sometimes a baby sitter. She
finished her elementary and high school years with many awards and
certificates. At college, she was able to pass the entrance exam of one of the
universities here in Mindanao that provides a high quality education. She took
BS Accountancy. She faced a lot of challenges in life and it is an uphill battle for
her but despite of it, she still holds on to her promise. Cleofe remained stronger
as time passes by and she still looks on the brighter side of life that one day,
she will be achieving her goals and be who she wants to be.