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 …
Tag Archive: Maths
May
30
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. …
Oct
21
Easily Amused
There once was a boy from the North Who selected Mathematics as his course He understood numbers And never made blunders Until he tried to write a limerick.
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