When the mercurial Girolamo Cardano met the hot-tempered Lodovico Ferrari, it sparked a successful working relationship that ended in death! Who murdered Ferrari?
When fifteenth century math became diabolically competitive!
Pacioli was an important person, not just in mathematics but also in accounting and magic…
Love escape rooms?! Card games? Math games?
In eighteenth-century Europe, there was an increase in women entering the field of science, more so than in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What happened in the eighteenth century that set women up for success?
The Pythagorean Theorem had been around possibly for thousands of years before Pythagoras was born.
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.
When Sofya Kovalevskaya obtained the position of full professor at Stockholm University, it was an exceptional accomplishment on behalf of women.