Beginning with simple calculations, such as the number of sheep in a herd, the field of mathematics has developed over time according to people’s needs and interests. In the course of history, ...
Around 1900 B.C., a student in the Sumerian city of Nippur, in what’s now Iraq, copied a multiplication table onto a clay tablet. Some 4,000 years later, that schoolwork survives, as do the student’s ...
Jeremiah Bartz owns shares in Nvidia. A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like ...
While American children once learned to add by reading a poster of animals and birds, they do it now by playing games on computers. Each step in between—whether it be a box of blocks or exercises ...
In March 2004, the Michigan Section of the Mathematical Association of the America (MichMAA), the Michigan Mathematics Teacher Educators (MMTE), the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM), ...
v.1. Ideas and their reception -- v.2. Institutions and applications.--v.3. Images, Ideas and Communities ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a book by Heinrich Dorrie, ...
Tucked away in a seemingly forgotten corner of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Daniel Mansfield found what may solve one of ancient math’s biggest questions. First exhumed in 1894 from what is now ...
A RECENT number of the American Mathematical Monthly (56, No. 1, Pt. 2, pp. 114 ; University of Buffalo, N.Y. ; 1 dollar), entitled "Outline of the History of Mathematics" by R. C. Archibald, ...
IT is only during the last fifty or sixty years that the history of mathematics has been systematically studied. In that time, however, the field has been gradually covered by an increasing number of ...
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