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Women in Maths

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Maths Epic Fails

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St Andrews Maths

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Did you know that an early female mathematician wa

Did you know that an early female mathematician was murdered by an angry mob?

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Witch Hat: OpenClipart-Vectors, Pixabay, https://pixabay.com/vectors/witch-wizard-hat-pointed-sorcerer-151269/

Pixel heart: Ben Bushnell, Pixabay, https://pixabay.com/illustrations/pixel-heart-heart-pixel-symbol-red-2779422/

Mortal Combat VS: Clipartmax, https://www.clipartmax.com/max/m2H7N4A0H7m2b1H7/

Orestes: Prefect Orestes wordt door monniken bespot, Public Domain, via Rijksmuseum, https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-OB-44.828

Hypatia: Mort de la philosophe Hypatie, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mort_de_la_philosophe_Hypatie.jpg

Hypatia: Portrait d'Hypatie d'Alexandrie, Jules Maurice Gaspard, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hypatia_portrait.png

Hypatia: Hypatia, Jules Kronberg, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hypatia_by_Julius_Kronberg,_1889.jpg

St Cyril: Icon St. Cyril of Alexandria, CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_St._Cyril_of_Alexandria.jpg

Angry Mob: A man is being chased away by an angry crowd, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en), via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_man_is_being_chased_away_by_an_angry_crowd._He_stands_behi_Wellcome_V0040853.jpg

Did you know that in Egyptian hieroglyphics, symbo

Did you know that in Egyptian hieroglyphics, symbols resembling a pair of legs were used to represent either addition or subtraction?

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Article by Andrew Maughan

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Image sources: Scarab of Neferu-Re

Kaldari, Public Domain, via Wikimedia
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Cartouches of Ramesses the third
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Robert Recorde,
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Oresme at study
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Widmann-Mercantile Arithmetic 1489

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Did you know that in Egyptian hieroglyphics, symbo

Did you know that in Egyptian hieroglyphics, symbols resembling a pair of legs were used to represent either addition or subtraction? Check out the full article at https://maths-from-the-past.org/maths-symbols/ !

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Article by Andrew Maughan

Even the wise are not free from error: Aryabhata,

Even the wise are not free from error: Aryabhata, a 5-6th century Indian mathematician, made a silly mistake in his book Aryabhatiya; he defined the square incorrectly.

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