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
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
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