Welcome to the History of Math! Get started with the videos below. And, be sure to test your parents each week with the challenge question. This week it is: Challenge question for your parents: How did ancient humans count if they didn’t have numbers? History of Mathematics Is math discovered or invented? Ishango …
Carl Friedrich Gauss is sometimes referred to as the “Prince of Mathematicians” and the “greatest mathematician since antiquity”. He has had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history’s most influential mathematicians. Gauss was a child prodigy. There are many anecdotes concerning his precocity as a …
Challenge question for you and your parents: What comes next: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ? The Fibonacci numbers are a sequence of numbers in mathematics named after Leonardo of Pisa, known as Fibonacci. Fibonacci wrote a book in 1202, called Liber Abaci (“Book of Calculation”), which introduced the number pattern to Western European …
