Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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The Italian Jesuit mathematician, Giovanno Girolamo Saccheri, who discovered non-Euclidian geometry and didn't realise it, was born was 5 September 1667
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https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/the-problem-with-parallels/
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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The Italian Jesuit mathematician, Giovanno Girolamo Saccheri, who discovered non-Euclidian geometry and didn't realise it, was born was 5 September 1667
#HistoryOfMathematics #histSTM
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/09/05/the-problem-with-parallels/
#historyofmathematics #histstm
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
494 followers · 1441 posts · Server historians.socialThe navigational, cartographic, astronomical, and other writings of the gentlemanly humanist scholar Thomas Blundeville (c. 1522–c. 1606) #HistoryOfNavigation #HistoryOfCartography #HistoryOfAstronomy #HistoryOfMathematics
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/the-equestrian-country-gentleman-who-turned-his-hand-to-navigation/
#historyofnavigation #historyofcartography #historyofastronomy #historyofmathematics
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Book Review:
#HistoryOfLogic #HistoryOfMathematics 'HistoryOfComputing
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/07/26/when-is-an-algorithm-not-an-algorithm/
#historyoflogic #historyofmathematics
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
478 followers · 1311 posts · Server historians.socialNewtonian mathematician, Roger Cotes, was born 10 July 1682 #HistoryOfPhysics #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfMathematics
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/if-he-had-lived-we-might-have-known-something/
#historyofphysics #historyofscience #historyofmathematics
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Renaissance mathematician astrologer, astronomer, mathematician, works first scientific printer/publisher, Regiomontanus, was born 6 June 1436 #histSTM #BookHistory #HistoryOfMathematics #HistoryOfAstrology #HistoryOfAstronomy
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/the-worlds-first-scientific-press/
#histstm #bookhistory #historyofmathematics #historyofastrology #historyofastronomy
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Renaissance mathematician astrologer, astronomer, mathematician, works first scientific printer/publisher, Regiomontanus, was born 6 June 1436 #histSTM #BookHistory #HistoryOfMathematics #HistoryOfAstrology #HistoryOfAstronomy
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/the-worlds-first-scientific-press/
#histstm #bookhistory #historyofmathematics #historyofastrology #historyofastronomy
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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French, Huguenot, Newtonian mathematician, Abraham De Moivre, was born 26 May 1667
#HistoryOfMathematics
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/10/24/a-newtonian-refuge/
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer was born 21 May 1471. He wrote the first maths book printed and published in German #HIstoryOfMathematics #histSTM
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Thomas Hood (1556–1620), England's first professional, public mathematics lecturer #historyofmathematics #historyofnavigation #historyofcartography
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/mathematicall-lecturer-to-the-citie-of-london/
#historyofmathematics #historyofnavigation #historyofcartography
Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Thomas Hood (1556–1620), England's first professional, public mathematics lecturer #historyofmathematics #historyofnavigation #historyofcartography
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/mathematicall-lecturer-to-the-citie-of-london/
#historyofmathematics #historyofnavigation #historyofcartography
etym dub · @lime_green_gnome
98 followers · 3265 posts · Server mstdn.socialMy SO has a #mathematics query: he saw in a video (likely YT) a set of cards meant as support for #PrimeFactorisation. They had holes in & you were meant to stack them & see which numbers showed through. Early C20th. Can't find the video again, any clues greatly appreciated. Tia
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