The more I read, the more I discovered a man whose intellectual habits felt surprisingly modern. He questioned accepted narratives, examined primary sources, and deeply learned the mathematics he was studying. And the part that gets me is that he treated the people of antiquity not as legends, but as human beings deserving of careful understanding.
DECEMBER 2016 — AROUND THE WORLD Humans persistently live in an age where the preservation of knowledge is essential. When Trump’s administration began its transition into our government, time was unforgivingly limited; archivists, scientists, and data base experts around the world hurriedly compiled and harbored endangered environmental protection records. Data rescue events were coordinated in the United Kingdom, Greece, Germany, Japan,
The history of math is a wild and bumpy ride. From goats to rockets, it’s all here!
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
The story of her life is an intriguing one! She was a mathematician, an astronomer, a philosopher, and a political advisor, yet she was brutally murdered by church monks. For thousands of years, her death overshadowed her accomplishments. But, eventually, the truth of her life finally surfaced in the history books. Damascius wrote that Theon raised Hypatia with dikaeosyne (justice) and
Hipparchus was one of the first mathematicians who trigonometrically defined his astronomical observations through stereographic projection …
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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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Now that Pi day is over, I have only one question: Where did the decimal come from?
Hypatia lived in Alexandria in the fourth and fifth centuries as a mathematician and philosopher. However, she is most famous for the way in which she died.