Sometime in the 5th century B.C. the Greek philosopher Hippasus of Metapontum, a member of the secretive Pythagorean brotherhood, left his home in southern Italy and boarded a seagoing ship. We do not know why Hippasus was traveling or where he was journeying, but we do know he didn’t make it. According to the legend, […]
Countless students learn integral calculus—the branch of mathematics concerned with finding the length, area or volume of an object by slicing it into small pieces and adding them up. What few realize is that their calculus homework originated, in part, in a debate between two 17th-century scholars. In 1635 Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri declared that […]
In my previous article I talked about how Pi was evolved and still today how we tend to reach to precise calculation of this irrational number. After receiving a great response about this article I decided to research about e (Euler’s number). There is a great contrast between the historical developments of these two numbers […]
In my previous article I talked about the history of Pi (π): How various formulae have been evolved till date to reach the maximum accuracy of π. In this article I will jot down the very same thing in nothing but a tabular format but more systematically. Below is the table. Pre computer calculations of […]
April 08, 2014: Microsoft officially announced that they will no longer support Windows XP from this day, which was probably the most popular and longest living operating system. Whoever, wherever, whenever used Windows XP, probably they all know about the ‘Bliss’ Wallpaper: XP’s most recognized quality that came stock on every machine. Captured by photographer […]
Throughout the history of Mathematics, one of the most enduring and interesting challenges has been the calculation of the ratio between a circle’s circumference and diameter, which is popularly known by the Greek letter pi (π). Probably we all know about the definition of pi, still I am quoting here from Wikipedia : “The number […]
The history of Decimal Point(.) seems to be very confusing to us. I found several records from several sources about the beginning of this tiny yet important symbol of Mathematics. This is a fact that has been overlooked by all historians that the credit of being first to use a dot as a separatrix with […]
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