Showing posts with label history of mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history of mathematics. Show all posts
Monday, June 10, 2024

Jim Simons and the Quants

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Being centered on mathematicians, this book was not exciting, but it was interesting. James Harris “Jim” Simons (1938-2024) earned his docto...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Footnotes on Number Theory

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I love to watch the odometer. It is not always convenient to stop and take a picture.   186285 miles were 1 Light Second Kaprekar’s Constant...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Merry Newtonmas 2019

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Born on December 25 (OS), 1642, Sir Issac Newton was more than the most brilliant man of his time. He was the first modern scientist. He di...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

A Simple Truth

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A picture is worth a thousand words, so I will not say much. I just thought that it is interesting that when something is true, it can be de...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

Number Theory as an Adventure

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Number theory can be taught to children. It all begins with integers. First year algebra (at least) is required to prove these conjectures....
Thursday, April 25, 2019

G. H. Hardy's "Apology"

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I am certainly among the perhaps one million readers of this classic who could never master the mathematics that Hardy taught. But the cont...
Friday, December 21, 2018

The Solstice Seasons

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“‘Tis the season to be jolly…”  It was easy enough to note the shortest day as the longest night. But the earliest sunset and latest sunris...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Eclipses?

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Obvious though it seems, how and why solar eclipses became important to our civilization is not at all clear. The path of totality is narro...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

HOW THE MARTIANS DISCOVERED ALGEBRA

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How the Martians Discovered Algebra: Explorations in Induction and the Philosophy of Mathematics by Roger E. Bissell ( Amazon here  in book...
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Saturday, August 12, 2017

The Antikythera Device

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The wonderfully complex mechanism that predicted eclipses, the positions of the planets, and the dates of Olympic games may have been a col...