By Jeremy Lane Math & Stats subject editor In the oft-repeated story of the development of the theory of motion, it was Aristotle who postulated (between 335 and 323 BC) that heavier objects fall faster, while Galileo triumphantly refuted him in the early 17th century by proving that the distance travelled by a falling object […]
by Jeremy Lane (Math & Stats editor) and Mykola Matvichuk 1. Using approximations by polygons in 250BC, Archimedes was the first person to compute an approximate value of pi. True or False? Answer: False. A collection of Sanskrit texts called the Sulbasutra dating back to 600BC (and arguably based on knowledge that had existed for […]
by Jeremy Lane Math and Statistics subject editor In his inaugural post, our new math and statistics editor, Jeremy Lane, brings us news and views from the world of math and its role in society. International ranking of math departments: useful tool or gaming the system? In October, Nassif Ghoussoub reblogged a fascinating piece of […]
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