There’s a party in the neighborhood with William Buckland, Tycho Brahe, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Stubbins Ffirth, and Pythagoras! Can you solve this logic puzzle?
What does Spinal Tap have to do with math? Everything that even the fourth century BCE laudable mathematician Eratosthenes would know: Dimensions!
If you are interested in learning more about the astrolabe, as well as how to make one, here are several links that will point you in the right direction. (pun intended)
My podcast has a secret, but my blog has all the math!
Archimedes was an infamous and remarkable scientist who founded many foundational principles and theories in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and engineering.
His parents raised him as a Quaker with earnest values: to live one’s life, not on a set of beliefs or utterances of God, but rather to exist as a testimony to the world.
Math is part of our genetic makeup, and history proves it to be true!
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