Alan Turing’s work cracking code messages from the German military saved thousands of lives during WWII. Then his country betrayed him. Watch the videos below to find out more about this legendary mathematician codebreaker! Challenge question for your parents: What is 1 + 1 (Answer: in binary, it is 10) Alan Turing – betrayed …
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 …
The history of mathematics is nearly as old as humanity itself. Since antiquity, mathematics has been fundamental to advances in science, engineering, and philosophy. It has evolved from simple counting, measurement and calculation, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects, through the application of abstraction, imagination and logic, to the …
