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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/8/2021
Racism in the Curriculum Isn't Limited to History – It Affects Math, Too
by Theodore Kim
Math is not a neutral space, beyond the reach of history and entrenched racism. At a time of anti-Asian prejudice, American mathematicians obscured the importance of Chinese scholars in developing core concepts that are still significant today, preserving the fiction of math as a western intellectual tradition.
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SOURCE: Inverse
8/4/2021
Proto-Geometry Found in Babylonian Tablet, a Thousand Years Older than Pythagoras
"It’s generally thought that trigonometry — a subset of geometry and what’s displayed on the tablet in a crude sense — was developed by ancient Greeks like the philosopher Pythagoras. However, analysis of the tablet suggests it was created 1,000 years before Pythagoras was born."
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/12/2020
Newton’s Daunting Masterpiece had a Surprisingly Wide Audience, Historians Find
Two historians of science have traced the ownership and sharing of Sir Isaac Newton's first edition of "Principia" to conclude that the book was more widely read and influential among Enlightenment thinkers than previously believed.
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5/17/2020
A Mathematical Duel in 16th Century Venice (Excerpt)
by Fabio Toscano translated Arturo Sangalli
The advancement of mathematics in renaissance Italy was complicated by a context of secrecy, jealousy, and competitive dueling governed by implicit codes of honor.
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2/9/20
Frank Ramsey: A Genius By All Tests for Genius
by Cheryl Misak
Unlike his friends Russell and Wittgenstein who focused on the vastness and the unknowability of the world, Ramsey believed it was more important to concentrate on what is admirable and conducive to living a good life.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/14/19
How one German city developed – and then lost – generations of math geniuses
by David Gunderman
Anti-Semitism brought down one of the world's greatest centers for mathematical research.
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11-2-14
He Was Scottish and He Changed the World. And Hardly Anyone Knows His Name.
by Julian Havil
John Napier was a man of his time, but perhaps not of ours.
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SOURCE: Nature
1-7-14
Ancient times table hidden in Chinese bamboo strips
The 2,300-year-old matrix is the world's oldest decimal multiplication table.
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SOURCE: Nautilus
8-17-13
The Man Who Invented Modern Probability
by Slava Gerovitch
Chance encounters in the life of Andrei Kolmogorov.