The 13th Century Italian Leonardo Pisano was perhaps the most talented European mathematician of the Middle Ages. But we little know about his real name, as he is best known by his nickname Fibonacci. This would come as a surprise to Leonardo himself, that he has been immortalized in the famous sequence – 0, 1, […]
We all who know even a little bit about mathematics, have heard the name ‘Pythagoras’ and his famous theorem ‘Pythagoras’ theorem’. He is often called the first ‘true’ mathematician and it is probably true that we owe pure mathematics to Pythagoras. Although his contribution was undoubtedly important, he remains a controversial personality in the mathematician community. […]
*silence* Hello? Hello? Are you God? Yes indeed, why do you need me? How do know…? Well anyways, listen, I don’t need you. I am just too tired. I needed someone to talk to…. Yeah, I guess I need you. Well, I am all ears then. I don’t know man, I don’t know what to […]
Egyptian Numerals: In my previous article we discussed an overview of the Ancient Egyptian mathematics : Part I where we saw a glimpse of the only evidences we have : The Rhind and Moscow papyri. We will discuss more detailed analysis of these evidences. But in order to truly understand Egyptian Mathematics, it is important to […]
An Overview: The early Egyptians settled along the fertile Nile valley as early as about 6000 BC, and they began to record the patterns of lunar phases and the seasons, both for agricultural and religious reasons. The Pharaoh’s surveyors used measurements based on body parts to measure land and buildings very early in Egyptian history, […]
In this post I am gonna show you how you can use your USB drive to install Windows WITHOUT using any third party software and save a lot of time. This was a much needed post because of several reasons. First of all, you will save a lot of time. You can cut the installation […]
JavaScript – The world’s most misunderstood programming language. JavaScript, also known as Mocha, or LiveScript, or JScript, or ECMAScript, is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. Virtually every personal computer in the world has at least one JavaScript interpreter installed on it and in active use. Despite its popularity, few know that JavaScript […]
Q-Ledge is an Android trivia game and fan community presented by Adam’s Lab. On Q-Ledge you can test your Aptitude, Logical Reasoning and Verbal Ability which is very common to different Competitive examinations and compare your intelligence with other Q-Ledge players from all over the world. You can find over 1,000 questions on Aptitude, Logical […]
In ancient times, “Chinese mathematics”, was defined as the “art of calculation” (Suan chu). Mathematics, or the art of calculation, was both practical and spiritual. It covered a wide range of subjects; from religion and astronomy to water control and administration. Today speakers of Chinese use three written numeral systems: the system of Arabic numerals […]
We heard the claim from one European reader that “The Arab world invented the zero, and it’s been downhill ever since.” And hence the name ‘Arabic Numerals’. This is false, but unfortunately not an uncommon mistake. Our numeral system dates back to India during the post-Roman era, but it came to Europe via the medieval […]
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