mathematics

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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.