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amazing maths talks
Aug. 3rd, 2005 09:10 pmMoan complain! We need teleportation so that I can duck down to Melbourne to go to these amazing talks. I get green with envy that all these wonderful events are going on down there. Waaaaahhhh!
A photograph of the hapless student's homework, immortalised on a hardened clay tablet, is among the fascinating examples of mathematics throughout history to be revealed by a visiting Canadian mathematics professor in Melbourne as part of National Science Week.
Graphics Editor of the American Mathematical Society, author, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Colombia, Professor Bill Casselman, will present a lecture at Monash University tracing the extraordinary history of mathematics from its Mesopotamian origins through Renaissance and into the present day.
His one-hour presentation will reveal evidence that school students in 2000 BC practiced their multiplication tables in much the same way as students today, ancient traders used spreadsheets to record transactions, and examples of Pythagoras' theorem existed long before Pythagoras was born.
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Student's struggle with mathematics revealed - 4,000 years on
When one Babylonian student failed to complete his mathematics homework, little did he realise that his carelessness would come to light 4,000 years later.A photograph of the hapless student's homework, immortalised on a hardened clay tablet, is among the fascinating examples of mathematics throughout history to be revealed by a visiting Canadian mathematics professor in Melbourne as part of National Science Week.
Graphics Editor of the American Mathematical Society, author, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Colombia, Professor Bill Casselman, will present a lecture at Monash University tracing the extraordinary history of mathematics from its Mesopotamian origins through Renaissance and into the present day.
His one-hour presentation will reveal evidence that school students in 2000 BC practiced their multiplication tables in much the same way as students today, ancient traders used spreadsheets to record transactions, and examples of Pythagoras' theorem existed long before Pythagoras was born.
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