I have good hope that there is something after death. This is a quote by Plato that I chose to use for the first chapter of my recently published book, Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life. This quote is so profound to me because her legacy continued to live on after Hypatia’s death. Some were negative, some were propaganda, and
Hipparchus was one of the first mathematicians who trigonometrically defined his astronomical observations through stereographic projection …
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In June 2022, Emma Haruka Iwao determined the value of pi to 100 trillion digits! When Archimedes first determined this value, his was only three digits. His life…
If you could travel through time, where would you want to go?!
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In ancient history, Rome had a few female contemporaries in science that forged a path for women in STEM!
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The Greek philosopher Aristotle was born in 384 BCE. The Italian philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225. Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564. Between the three of them, there is a story that spans almost 2000 years. That story is known as the Galileo Affair.
Is mathematics invented or discovered? And if it is invented, can it be patented? Has it ever been patented? I will discuss this in today’s episode.
Many people have heard of pseudoscience. But have you ever heard of pseudomathematics?
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Now that Pi day is over, I have only one question: Where did the decimal come from?