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.p171 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofya_Kovalevskaya | Sophie Kowalevski (born Korvin-Krukovakaya) 1850-1891 ]] Russian mathematics professor, first woman to earn mathematics doctorate in 1874. Died of flu complicated by pneumonia in 1891 .p187 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_G._Krantz | Steven Krantz ]] book ''Mathematical Apocrypha: Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical'' repeats heresay that Kowalevski had affair with colleague . many academics emphasize her appearance more than her mathematics |
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The Secret Lives of Numbers
A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers
Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell . 2024 . 510.9 KITAGAWA . Hillsboro Library
p001 Prelude
p007 Chapter 1 - In the Beginning
p020 Chapter 2 - The Turtle and the Emperor
- p031 I Ching inspired Leibniz binary math
p039 humblebrag
p042 Chapter 3 - A Town Called Alex
p046 Pandrosion 4th century female mathematician in Alexandria
p047 Doubling the cube impossible with straightedge and compass
p047 Difference between theorem and proof, earliest recorded case of mansplaining
p048 Hipparchia
p049 Theon to daughter Hipparchia: "Reserve your right to think. For even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
p057 Chapter 4 - The Dawn of Time
p060 Mayan Long Count Calendar ended 2012 December 21, some believed this predicted the end of the world. The Maya actually believed this was one of many rebirth cycles, nothing changed because of the measurement itse3lf
p060 Yazılıkaya religious sanctuary for hundreds of deities
p072 Chapter 5 - On the Origin(s) of Zero
p075 Jain math of large numbers, shirsa prahelika: 756e11 x (8.4e6)²⁸ (approx 5.7324601e208 )
p089 Chapter 6 - The House of Wisdom
p103 Chapter 7 - The Impossible Dream
p109 Republic of Letters 17th and 18th centuries, Europe/America
p111 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat mathematical physicist elected to French Academy of Sciences in 1979 (age 55), died 2025 age 101
p111 Elisabeth of Bohemia
p115 Apollonius's problem
- given 3 circles, find eight more (book says one but diagram on page 116 shows 8) that are tangent to all three
- p117 three algebraic equations, though third equation second term should be (y-y₃)²
p117 Descartes dedicated his 1644 Principles of Philosophy to Elisabeth
p117 Elisabeth corresponded with Anna Maria von Schurman Marie de Gournay and Katherine Jones / Lady Ranelagh
p118 Chapter 8 - The (First) Calculus Pioneers
p133 Leibnitz corresponded with mocking, indifferent Newton
- Newton developed calculus (fluxions 1666) years before Leibnitz independently did so (1675), but Leibnitz notation more useful and replaced fluxions. Britain adopted Leibniz notation in the 1820s, after decades falling behind continental mathematics
p138 in his 2009 book A Passage to Infinity George Gheverghese Joseph argues both Leibniz and Newton influenced by Kerala mathematicians
p139 Chapter 9 - Newtonianism for Ladies
- p144 Descartes: Earth round. Newton, Earth Oblate Spheroid due to rotational centrifugal acceleration
p146 French meridian arc missions to Torneå in Northern Finland
p146 and Ecuador
- severe weather and deaths, three year project unfinished after nine years
- p147 assistants and helpers abandoned, some spent 15 years trying to pay their way home
p149 Émilie du Châtelet conservation of energy 1740
p151 Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti world's first female professor in 1732 at the University of Bologna
p157 Chapter 10 - A Grand Synthesis
p158 Xuanye, Kangxi Emperor longest reigning (61 years) Chinese emperor (from age 6)
- fascinated by western learning, particularly mathematics and astronomy
p163 took math lessons from Jesuit missionary Verbiest
p171 Chapter 11 - The Mathematical Mermaid
p171 Sophie Kowalevski (born Korvin-Krukovakaya) 1850-1891 Russian mathematics professor, first woman to earn mathematics doctorate in 1874. Died of flu complicated by pneumonia in 1891
p187 Steven Krantz book Mathematical Apocrypha: Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical repeats heresay that Kowalevski had affair with colleague
- many academics emphasize her appearance more than her mathematics
p190 Chapter 12 - Revolutions
p208 Chapter 13 - ∞
p217 David Blackwell candidate for UC Berkeley math department, but the wife of department head Griffith Evans said "she would not have that darky in my house". PhD Harvard 1910, faculty Rice University 1912-1934, where he met and married Rice student Isabel Mary John in 1917. Presumably Texas is where Mrs. Evans learned bigotry, like my mother's Texas stepmother.
p221 Chapter 14 - Mapping the Stars
p273 Further Readings
p285 Index