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Math artist John Sims is living a life of pi – Quartzy

Posted on March 14, 2019 by agogo22

Every day is Pi Day for this artist, who brings math to life in art, videos, music, crafts, and writing. Pi is  3.14159, plus some, ad infinitum, a number sequence that doesn’t repeat and whose end cannot be reached. On … Continue reading →

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The Weird Truth About Arabic Numerals

Posted on December 2, 2018 by agogo22

Hank unravels the fascinating yarn of how the world came to use so-called Arabic numerals — from the scholarship of ancient Hindu mathematicians, to Muslim scientist Al-Khwarizmi, to the merchants of medieval Italy.

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