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 […]
Today I am gonna write about History of Imaginary Number System and Complex numbers. At the ancient time it was very difficult to imagine a number which is in fact imaginary, but when time grows, mathematicians felt a need to incorporate an imaginary number system for the sake of solving many problems. How how it […]
In my previous article, I documented how zero was evolved and has been leading a great role in mathematics since its inception. In this post I will write about how Calculus came to place in our modern mathematics. The discovery of modern calculus is often attributed to two men, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, who […]
In today’s era, not only in Mathematics but also in other branches of science, Finance, in our daily life altogether, the most important number in our number system is the Zero but ironically which stands for nothing. Zero is a very strange number. It is neither positive nor negative. If you add or subtract zero […]
Google Custom Search is one of those tools whose list of Plus points is nearly endless. From providing super relevant search results to options for On-Demand Indexing. But the problem is its very simple look and Google Watermark. Suppose your website has very responsive CSS and the Google search Box you have provided does not […]
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