Pappus and Pandrosion:  the curmudgeon and the professor

Pappus and Pandrosion: the curmudgeon and the professor

There is a paper on Acad­e­mia that I post­ed years ago, proud­ly claim­ing that Hypa­tia was the world’s first female math­e­mati­cian. It’s hum­bling what years of research will teach you. It so turns out that Hypa­tia was NOT the world’s first female math­e­mati­cian. Oth­er women taught math­e­mat­ics long before Hypa­tia, includ­ing the math­e­mati­cian Pan­dro­sion. She was one of the first

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REPOSTING: The Story of Adolphe Rome from 300 B.C. to 2018 A.D.

REPOSTING: The Story of Adolphe Rome from 300 B.C. to 2018 A.D.

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,

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Who wants to be a millionaire?

Who wants to be a millionaire?

Some­times win­ning $1,000,000 is sim­ple. You can scratch a tick­et, or beat the sta­tis­ti­cal odds of a lot­tery draw­ing, or earn a spot on Who Wants to be a Mil­lion­aire? Easy, right?! A not so easy way to win $1,000,000 is to solve one of the six remain­ing Mil­len­ni­um Prob­lems. It used to be sev­en prob­lems until Math­e­mati­cian Grig­ori Perelman

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The Poincare Conjecture and Father’s Day

The Poincare Conjecture and Father’s Day

My love for math began when I was about sev­en. From ele­men­tary school through high school, on some morn­ings I would find a math puz­zle next to my cere­al bowl. My dad, before he would go to work, would write down a puz­zle and set it next to my break­fast set­ting. When I worked with him at Sund­strand Avi­a­tion after

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