In her signature book, Mary Everest Boole, a pioneering mathematician and (I'd argue) developmental psychologist, beautifully describes the power of mathematics for seeing beyond appearances, and for providing tools to define what we do not know.
https://archive.org/details/philosophyfunofa00boolrich/mode/2up?ref=ol #math #science
Mary Everest Boole married mathematician George Boole. He died of pneumonia when she was 32, taking care of 5 young daughters She continued writing and researching math for another half-century, without access to any traditional academic support.
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boole_Mary/ #science #math #nature
I learned algebra without ever thinking about where it came from. Algebra literally means "reunion of broken parts": using logical reasoning to discover what is unknown. The name comes from "Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala," a groundbreaking treatise by al-Khwārizmī.
Algebra is a tool for clarity of thought...among many other things.
Seeing a broken world and developing ways to reintegrate it so that it makes more sense...quite a legacy for the 9th-century Islamic mathematician Al-Khwārizmī, who established the modern system of algebra.
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Khwarizmi/ #math #science #logic
@coreyspowell My fav quote: √-1 is a messenger from the As-Yet-Unknown.
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