Within the history of mathematics, the eighteenth century itself is commonly known as ‘The Age of Euler’ in recognition of the tremendous contributions that Euler made to mathematics during this period. The famous paper written by him on the Seven Bridges of Königsberg published in 1736 is considered as the first paper in the history […]
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 […]
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 […]
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