N-gated Hacker NewsMay 27
Ah, the riveting tale of math's linguistic struggle from Latin to English—because apparently, people in the #1500s had nothing better to do. 🤓📚 Let's celebrate the groundbreaking revelation that math books eventually switched languages...in only 48 years! 🎉📖 Who knew math was such a drama queen? 🤔💁‍♂️
https://tyndale.org/journals/reformj01/bmarsden.html #mathhistory #languagechange #linguisticdrama #education #HackerNews #ngated
Seeking a Language in Mathematics 1523-1571

Hacker NewsMay 24

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-alexander-grothendieck-revolutionized-20th-century-mathematics-20260520/

#HackerNews #AlexanderGrothendieck #Mathematics #Revolution #20thCentury #MathHistory

How Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics | Quanta Magazine

Grothendieck is revered in the world of math; outside of it, he’s known for his unusual life, if he’s known at all. But what were his actual mathematical contributions?

Quanta Magazine
Hacker NewsApr 26

An amateur just solved a 60-year-old math problem–by asking AI

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-problem/

#HackerNews #amateurmath #AIinnovation #problem-solving #mathhistory

Amateur armed with ChatGPT ‘vibe maths’ a 60-year-old problem

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses

Scientific American
MikeTateMathMar 25

Fibonacci's Liber Abaci isn't just the rabbit problem. It's a 600‑page invitation to discovery—math embedded in trade, geometry, and open‑ended exploration.

I rebuilt that spirit with interactive tools: a recursive‑harmonic weave, an idle research game, an RPG toolkit.

Not a textbook. A workshop.

https://miketatemath.org/liber-abaci/

#MathHistory #RecursiveMath #InteractiveMath

MikeTateMath.org: Solutions to open problems -Liber Abaci

The reduction of Liber Abaci to “that book with the rabbit problem” misses everything that made Fibonacci’s work revolutionary. Across 600 pages, Fibonacci didn’t teach proc…

MikeTateMath.org
облезлыйJan 3
Why the Fields Medal Was Awarded for Solving a Problem Most Physicists Ignored #mathhistory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g07Bm-zBM98
Why the Fields Medal Was Awarded for Solving a Problem Most Physicists Ignored #mathhistory

YouTube
remcyclesNov 6, 2025

I had a lot of fun investigating fast ways to generate sine waves:
https://remcycles.net/blog/viete_cheb.html

This was part of my presentation at the Signal Processing Summit and DSP Online Conference presentation on simulating the tides by adding up sine waves.

#math #dsp #mathhistory #jsoftware

N-gated Hacker NewsOct 1, 2025
📜💻 Behold, the saga continues with a thrilling tale of 17th-century "computers" – aka glorified abacuses with delusions of grandeur! 🧮⚙️ Dive into this riveting sequel of ancient calculators, where Pascal and Leibniz squabble over who invented the first math machine, and we pretend it's relevant in 2025. 📅🤦‍♂️
https://www.oranlooney.com/post/history-of-computing-2/ #ancientcomputers #mathhistory #techhumor #pascalvsleibniz #historicalinventions #HackerNews #ngated
The Prehistory of Computing, Part II - OranLooney.com

In part I of this two-part series we covered lookup tables and simple devices with at most a handful of moving parts. This time we’ll pick up in the 17th centuries, when computing devices started to became far more complex and the groundwork for later theoretical work began to be laid. Pascal We enter the era of mechanical calculators in 1642 when Pascal invented a machine, charmingly called the pascaline, which could perform addition and subtraction:

Fractal KittyAug 26, 2025

If birds are getting renamed, why can't we rename Lemma and Theorems?

Is there anything in the works I am unaware of?

I throw out mathober prompts all the time when I currate the list that have peoples names.

#mathHistory #math

N-gated Hacker NewsJun 7, 2025
📖🤓 Ah, the riveting world of math symbols—because obviously, everyone is desperate to know why their #calculator has more obscure squiggles than a modern #art exhibit. 😴🔢 Dr. Drang's deep dive into Rojas's dusty tome is surely what the Internet was clamoring for—because who doesn't want to cozy up with a thrilling bedtime story about the Ampersand? 💤📚
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/06/math-symbol-frequencies/ #mathsymbols #mathhistory #DrDrang #Rojas #HackerNews #ngated
Math symbol frequencies

katch wreckMay 20, 2025

`Although the term "matrix" was introduced into mathematical literature by James Joseph Sylvester in 1850, the credit for founding the theory of matrices must be given to Arthur Cayley, since he published the first expository articles on the subject. ... Cayley's introductory paper in matrix theory was written in French and published in a German periodical [in 1855]`

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cayley/

#history #math #mathHistory #matrix #linearAlgebra #algebra

Arthur Cayley - Biography

Arthur Cayley's most important work was in developing the algebra of matrices and work in non-euclidean and n-dimensional geometry.

Maths History