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The medieval scholar whose homework runs every app on your phone #Mathematics #HistoryOfMath
The medieval scholar whose homework runs every app on your phone
The math behind your GPS, face unlock, and online banking was worked out by people who never touched a computer — some over a thousand years ago. This piece traces 20 mathematicians to the exact technologies their proofs made possible, and the connections are genuinely surprising.
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September 23, 2026 at 5:08 PM
johannamath.bsky.social
Look what I found at the Strand today! #Hilbert10 #HistoryOfMath #MathSky
A photo of the cover of a book: Hilbert's Tenth Problem by Yuri V. Matiyasevich, foreword by Martin Davis. The cover is aqua and faded in parts, and it has two sequences of 10s going across it and one going down.
August 22, 2026 at 10:45 PM
dbarman.bsky.social
This is a cool accessible video that explains seven great theorems in math! #mtbos #iteachmath #historyOfMath
7 Levels of the Greatest Math Theorems
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November 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM
simplebutnoteasy.bsky.social
Because of Hindu-Arabic numerals, kids like us can do things scholars used to do.

Simple But Not Easy

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A four-panel black and white comic titled "SIMPLE BUT NOT EASY" featuring retro clip art. Panel 1 shows a young girl talking to a boy on a tricycle holding a teddy bear, with stone tablets showing Roman numerals in the background, explaining how ancient numbers looked different. Panel 2 features classical Roman statues and columns alongside text explaining how ancient numeric systems were slow and limited math to scholars, whereas the adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals allowed children to perform advanced arithmetic. Panel 3 displays animated schoolhouse and textbook figures with text describing how spatial arrangements of modern numerals enable mental math and global standardization over the last few centuries. Panel 4 returns to the children: the girl offers to teach a secret language she made up with Teddy, to which the boy replies, "Nobody wants to learn your weird language. My daddy speaks American so I do too".
September 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
dbarman.bsky.social
What a great day in Chicago! We visited several schools I’d attended, drove past Wrigley Field, ate at the iconic #vegan (and now also vegetarian on request) Chicago Diner and saw cool signs in vicinity about famous #gay folks like #AlanTuring #mtbos #historyOfMath #iteachmath …
July 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
mngstm.bsky.social
Instructing the Mathematical Imagination published by @amermathsoc.bsky.social examines the creation and character of mathematical training at Bryn Mawr College between 1885 and 1926 under the leadership of Charlotte Angas Scott.

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November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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📢Attention, history of math enthusiasts! The BSHM Research in Progress meeting for research students in the history of mathematics is happening 22 Feb 2025 at The Queen’s College, Oxford! 🎓
Submit abstracts by 30 Nov 2024

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#BSHM #HistoryOfMath #Oxford
Research in Progress | The British Society for the History of Mathematics
Our annual meeting which provides an opportunity for research students in any area of the history of mathematics to present their work to a friendly and supportive audience. Our keynote speaker will…
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November 10, 2024 at 12:10 PM
ronbuckmire.bsky.social
Calculus as a subject is “nearly 400 years old”?L’Hopital’s calculus textbook has a publication date of 1696–I’d probably go with “well over 500 years old…” #HistoryOfMath
August 8, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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#Math #Mathematics #MathTwitter #SciComm #Philosophy #Logic #HistoryOfMath #CognitiveScience #FormalSystems #KnowledgeSystems
How Writing Changes Mathematical Thought | Quanta Magazine
David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology.
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March 29, 2026 at 3:11 AM
learnwithlumi.bsky.social
The Origins of Algorithm: Discover through the genius of Al-Khwarizmi—whose 9th-century insights still power our digital world today. From equations to computing, his legacy lives on.

#AlKhwarizmi #HistoryOfMath #AlgorithmOrigins #STEMstory #MathematicsMatters #Math #algorithm #History #Education
April 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
dbarman.bsky.social
Libraries are great resources. In algebra at @trianglemath.bsky.social we had topics like math duels & adventures by Cardano, Tartaglia,etal & imag nums as embarrassing kluge last wk-on to Viète. Here’s book for middle/high & one on 0 for yngr Ss-both fascinating #historyOfMath! #mtbos #iteachmath
February 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
dbarman.bsky.social
Ian Stewart shared what he calls '17 equations that changed the course of history' www.businessinsider.com/17-equations... ianstewartjoat.weebly.com/equations.html #mtbos #iteachmath #historyOfMath
The 17 equations that changed the course of history
From Ian Stewart's book, these 17 math equations changed the course of human history.
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April 2, 2025 at 5:12 AM
dbarman.bsky.social
We all had #mathisfun at the Durham Public Library today for K-3 students learning about the integer partition problem. I read the book, "Friend of Numbers: The Life of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan" by Priya Narayanan and we explored breaking up integers. #mtbos #iteachmath #historyOfMath
January 11, 2026 at 4:40 AM
dbarman.bsky.social
In algebra @trianglemath.bsky.social we start Cartesian coords w/a long ref doc I'll share & #historyOfMath incl #Descartes #Fermat #Leibniz and break going synthetic to analytic geometry. We'll discuss log-log & semilog scales as well. Refs: mathnstuff.com, youtu.be/HUrf08PbI8k #mtbos #iteachmath
December 12, 2024 at 8:15 PM
dbarman.bsky.social
200+ years before Leibniz&Newton created calculus, Indian mathematicians like Madhava of Kerala School (River Nila School) that lasted 300 yrs had 1st developed ideas of limits & series like Maclaurin as per Swagat Saurav Mishr sharing P.P. Divakaran's #historyOfMath www.youtube.com/live/G23Jx0k...
The Real Story of Calculus - Numberphile
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November 14, 2025 at 7:14 AM
dbarman.bsky.social
We had a lot of #mathisfun in our 1st-3rd grade #mathCircle looking at angles & seeing angles of a triangle add to 180deg. We discussed why we use 360 instead of a power of 10 to measure angles and talked a bit about #historyOfMath and zero. One student made their own protractor! #mtbos #iteachmath
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
rationalmean.bsky.social
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Trivial root-approximating methods that inexplicably have not appeared in the math literature since ancient times.
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Aproximación de raíces de la Ecuación Algebraica. Ni escuelas, ni DeepSeek , te enseñan esto!
YouTube video by @RedPillMath Domingo Gomez Morin. Struct. Engineer
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February 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
rationalmean.bsky.social
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Trivial High-Order root-approximating methods that inexplicably have not appeared in the literature since ancient times.
#math #mathematics #maths #numbertheory #philosophy #STEM #python #numbertheory #MathHistory #calculus #numbers #history #IrrationalNumbers #HistoryOfMath
Proceso Racional vs Calculo Infinitesimal. Ni en escuelas, ni en libros enseñan esto! ¿Por qué?
YouTube video by @RedPillMath Domingo Gomez Morin. Struct. Engineer
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February 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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A #HistoryOfMath moment, for no particular reason... My usually taciturn PhD advisor once related an anecdote about his experience as a Chern student (so, 1970s) - he said Chern was of the opinion that there were infinitely many complex structures on \\(S^6\\) - but that they were just hard to find.
August 24, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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#physics #mathematics #math #HistoryofPhysics #HistoryofMath
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July 24, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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July 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
biblicaljournal.bsky.social
A reexamination of inscribed sherds from Tel Arad uncovers the overlooked world of ancient numeracy. Beyond literacy, Judahite administrators mastered timekeeping and accounting centuries before exile. #AncientNearEast #Epigraphy #HistoryOfMath
How did biblical Judeans track time? Trove of 6th-century BCE inscriptions offers clues
New analysis of 2,600-year-old Tel Arad ostraca suggests Iron Age soldiers tracked months, days, and supplies with sophisticated numerical systems
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November 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
noahkennedy.bsky.social
The 1s and 0s of modern computing owe their existence to George Boole's attempt to resolve a theological dilemma. Here's how logic redefined technology. #BooleanLogic #HistoryOfMath #InformationAge
December 18, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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June 26, 2026 at 1:06 PM
imathtutor.bsky.social
Placing the role of artificial intelligence in mathematics in a philosophical and historical context.
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June 19, 2026 at 1:04 PM