My History of Mathematics course included a passage from a book by Robert Recorde, a Welsh Mathematician who was active in the mid 1500′s, most notable for introducing the = symbol. The book in particular was The Pathway to Knowledge, with the passage entitled The Commodities of Geometry. I’ve done what I can to translate …
Category Archive: Sheffield
May
30
May
22
‘Ey, Gwingo!
It’s been so long since I posted here, even my spam commenters had seemingly given up on it, returning back to Yahoo! news articles and twitter bothering. To get some more posts going, I need to get out with my camera again soon, I’ve even bought some lovely new little bits and bobs I can …
Mar
01
Mr. Inconsistent
Well, Triple J has done well this morning. Their live tracks are something to behold, especially since so many of them are real ‘tingly’ tracks. They’ve made my mornings work fly by, finding out where various Babylonian tablets are living, and how to represent 9/10 as an Egyptian fraction. History of Mathematics – top course. …
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