Category: Math History
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Every Unsolved Math Problem Solved
The Poincaré Conjecture Trisecting an Angle The Classification of Finite Simple Groups The Four Color Theorem The Continuum Hypothesis Fermat’s Last Theorem Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems The Prime Number Theorem Solving Polynomials by Radicals The Poincaré Conjecture Henri Poincaré. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute, a nonprofit read more
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Every Dark Scandal in Math
The Murder of Hypatia The Nobel Affair The Burning of the Library of Alexandria The MIT Card Counters in Las Vegas The Air Force Cheating Scandal André Bloch’s Murders P versus NP Alan Turing Newton and Leibniz’s Calculus Wars The Drowning of Hippasus Galois’s Duel and Death The Eudaemons Cardano versus read more
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Every Equation in Math and Physics You Need to Know
Every Crucial Equation in Math and Physics Seventeen Equations That Built the Modern World The Pythagorean Theorem Logarithms Calculus The Law of Gravity The Square Root of −1 Euler’s Polyhedra Formula The Fourier Transform The Wave Equation Maxwell’s Equations The Second Law of Thermodynamics The Normal Distribution Relativity The Schrödinger Equation read more
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Every Weird Math Paradox Explained – Part 2
Simpson’s Paradox The Monty Hall Problem The Sleeping Beauty Problem Cantor’s Paradox The Ant on a Stretching Rope Berry’s Paradox The Absent-Minded Driver Hooper’s Paradox Bertrand’s Paradox Simpson’s Paradox Simpson’s Paradox is often presented as a compelling demonstration of why we need statistics education in our schools. It was first noted read more
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Greatest Physicists and their Contributions
Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton Michael Faraday James Clerk Maxwell Ludwig Boltzmann J.J. Thomson Max Planck Marie Curie Ernest Rutherford Albert Einstein Niels Bohr Paul Dirac Richard Feynman Galileo Galilei Born in Pisa, Galileo initially trained as a doctor, studying medicine at the University of Pisa. He shifted to mathematics but left read more
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Greatest Mathematicians – Final Part (Pt 3)
Famous and Influential Mathematicians from 600 BC to the 21st Century Stefan Banach Henri Cartan Israel Gelfand Laurent Schwartz David Mumford Alain Connes Karen Uhlenbeck Freeman Dyson Barry Mazur Peter Lax Yakov Sinai George Dantzig Enrico Bombieri David Hilbert Claude Shannon Felix Hausdorff Alfred Tarski Marshall H. Stone Saunders Mac Lane read more
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Every Important Math Constant Explained
Pi (π) Euler’s Number (e) The Imaginary Unit (i) Pythagoras’s Constant (√2) Theodorus’s Constant (√3) The Golden Ratio (φ) The Euler-Mascheroni Constant (γ) The First Feigenbaum Constant (δ) The Second Feigenbaum Constant (α) Apéry’s Constant (ζ(3)) Conway’s Constant (λ) Khinchin’s Constant (K) The Glaisher-Kinkelin Constant (A) Zero (0) Aleph-Null (ℵ₀) Catalan’s read more
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Greatest Mathematicians and their Discoveries – Part 2
A Timeline of History’s Greatest Mathematicians Ancient Mathematicians Indian and Central Asian Mathematicians Renaissance and Early Modern Mathematicians The Bernoulli Era and 18th Century 19th Century Mathematicians Early 20th Century Mathematicians Mid to Late 20th Century Mathematicians Ancient Mathematicians Thales of Miletus is a foundational figure in Greek mathematics and philosophy, read more
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Why Catalan’s Constant Still Puzzles Mathematicians
Catalan’s constant is a well-known mathematical constant defined by the infinite series: It is named after the Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan, who first gave an equivalent series and expressions in terms of integrals for this constant. Where Does Catalan’s Constant Appear? Is Catalan’s Constant Rational or Irrational? Computing Catalan’s Constant read more
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Every Unsolved Math Problem Explained
Notable Conjectures and Unsolved Problems in Mathematics Casas-Alvero Conjecture Riemann Hypothesis Navier–Stokes Existence and Smoothness Jacobian Conjecture Erdős–Oler Conjecture Gauss Circle Problem Kissing Number Problem Unequal Circle Packing Sendov’s Conjecture Tripod Packing Thomson Problem Levi–Hadwiger Conjecture Heesch Problem Kalai’s 3d Conjecture Casas-Alvero Conjecture If an integer k can be expressed as read more
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