TRANSCRIPTS Welcome to Flashcards Fridays! Today we are learning how to feel conversions in your head, no pen, no paper, no calculator. Just patterns, rhythm, and a little bit of imagination. Because math isn’t just numbers, it’s about feeling the rhythm of math and understanding how the world around us fits together. So, imagine you’re getting ready to go for
The French Revolution and the Birth of a Universal Measure It’s 1789 in Paris. The French Revolution is in full swing, heads are rolling (literally), ideas of liberty and reason are electrifying the air, and nothing is off-limits for reform. Amid this upheaval, one very practical problem stood out: weights and measures. Every region and every trade in France seemed
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS It’s Flashcard Fridays at Math! Science! History!, where we explore the beautiful, messy, brilliant evolution of human thought. I’m Gabrielle Birchak, and today I’m briefly covering the life of a man whose mind helped save millions of lives and lay the groundwork for the digital age we live in. He cracked codes, he challenged the norms, he made
MATH SCIENCE HISTORY TRANSCRIPTS GABRIELLE:Welcome to Math! Science! History! I have a special episode today that includes an interview with Daniel Shiu, where we discuss his latest article, The Influence of Bletchley Park on UK Mathematics, which was published in the Taylor and Francis journal, Cryptologia. It is such a wonderful article about Bletchley Park and the eclectic individuals that
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS It’s Flashcards Friday at Math! Science! History! and since we’re doing a short podcast, I couldn’t think of a better topic to do than a Flashcard about Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. I’m Gabrielle Birchak. I have a background in math, science, and journalism. By the time you’re done listening to this brief podcast, you will know more
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS Welcome to Math! Science! History! Today, I’m going to be talking about the woman who inspired Albert Einstein so much that he might have even published some of her ideas under his name. Hi, I’m Gabrielle Birchak, I have a background in math, science and journalism. By the time you are done listening to today’s podcast you are
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS It’s Flashcard Friday here at Math, Science, History, when on Fridays we post a short little flash card about something mathy, sciency, or history. I’m your host, Gabrielle Birchak, and I’m sharing a story about the life of a remarkable woman who made a profound, yet often overlooked, contribution to mathematics and education: Jacoba van den Brande. Though
Today, I travel back to the nineteenth century to meet with Pierre-Simon Laplace, a man who imagined a super-intelligence so powerful, it could calculate the entire history and future of the universe.
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTSDoes Math = Logic? Welcome to Math, Science, History, the podcast where we uncover the fascinating stories behind the numbers, the equations, and the discoveries that have shaped our world. I’m Gabrielle Birchak and today, we’re diving deep into the role of logic and argumentation in mathematics. How do mathematicians prove their theories? What makes an argument in math sound
The Origins of Boolean Logic Boolean logic was developed by George Boole, a self-taught mathematician and logician from England. Boole’s interest in logic began early, inspired by his father, a shoemaker with a passion for science and mathematics. In 1854, Boole published his seminal work, An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, where he introduced an interesting concept where he