Category Archives: Math History

The biggest project in Mathematics

Posted on September 7, 2022 by Sumant Sumant
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Mathematical Gems || by Ross Honsberger

Posted on June 23, 2022 by Sumant Sumant
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Lunes of Hippocretes

Posted on July 13, 2020 by Sumant Sumant

I saw this problem in Posamentier’s book and recently I found this in Starbird’s lecture. This was probably an attempt by Hippocretes to square the circle. The amazing thing is that the area of lunes is equal to the area … Continue reading →

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Trisection of Angle using Ruler

Posted on July 13, 2020 by Sumant Sumant

One of the three problems of antiquity. While one cannot use an unmarked ruler and compass to trisect a given angle. Archimedes found a method to trisect using a marked ruler. Here is his brilliant proof. I learned this from … Continue reading →

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Pbs Video on Devil’s Staircase

Posted on May 27, 2017 by Sumant Sumant

This is my first introduction to the Cantor Set and Cantor Function. The Cantor set is easily understood if one moves to the realm of base 3 numbers. Because in base 3 its easy to think of whereas the decimal … Continue reading →

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Fourier, Cauchy, Weirstrauss, Sofia Kovalaskaya

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Sumant Sumant

This lecture talks about the Fouriers contribution of adding continuous functions to get a discontinuous function. Cauchy was a brilliant mathematician and Abel’s impression that he was confusing but the only mathematician who was doing mathematics right. Also how Cauchy … Continue reading →

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