Let me finish tonight with this. We have been left a great number system. It was developed by Arab and Persian mathematicians living in India and transferred to Europe in the middle ages. It's a ...

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As I told my class on Thursday, the theme of the first week of our math history course was “easy algebra is hard in base 60.” We started the semester in ancient Mesopotamia, trying to understand ...

Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented at the start of the eighteenth century by the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz. But ...