Join me in celebrating Black History Month! I always love this month because so many incredible stories about perseverance, dedication, hard work, grit, humanism, empathy, and brilliance are shared throughout the entire month, celebrating Black Culture and those noble goddesses who are part of the African American culture. This week, I want to introduce you to Dr. Roger Arliner Young.
My last post was about the life of Évariste Galois and his contributions to abstract algebra. Between that podcast and my recent addiction to Rummikub, this thought process then led me, or distracted me, to thinking about number sets and groups. These mathematicians have written about groups, then about swimming, and the current Olympic trials for swimming, which then conveniently led me back to abstract algebra, which was the topic of my last post on Evariste Galois. My brain went full circle!
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.
Some of us go through life with gnawing thoughts of “I always wanted to be a _________.” If the word “scientist” ends this sentence for you, but you feel that your goal is out of reach, think again. You can still become a scientist, even without a Ph.D. and even without a college education. Many individuals, called autodidacts, are active
First there was …
Then came along …
Where did the word “scientist” come from?!
Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on.
In 1895, Coney Island debuted the first looping roller coaster, and it was a flop! Why were people getting broken necks?
