2007.08.27
A History of Math
Now before you go screaming at the headline there, understand I was never great at math and this isn’t about actually doing math. However in the past couple days I’ve been sick and in my slight fever I’ve been reading various histories of math. It’s really fascinating stuff! Who knew! I’m not really reading some of the technical histories like set theory or Pell’s equation but I am loving some of the general topics like math from various cultures, the histories of zero and Pi (Ï€) and about math being taught in London coffee houses. Cool stuff.
My math is, despite what many think, spotty at best. It’s like when I took physics. I could explain the concepts of various physics to the students better than the teacher could, but when it came to taking the test and doing all that math… Well let’s just say I got a “C” and leave it at that.
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One Response to “A History of Math”
- Mookee says (August 27th, 2007 at 19:29:33 )
History of Zero is a great book. I don’t remember who wrote it, and I’m not a math guy, and every once in a while it was over my head … but it’s fabulous.
