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
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,
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