Math history

In her book "The Abacus and The Cross", scholar Nancy Marie Brown introduces us to a medieval mathematician named Gerbert (later Pope Sylvester II), the man responsible for introducing algebra to medieval Europe and for giving us the place-value system that we still use all these centuries later.

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Before the days of Power Point and Prezi, employees at NASA would have to go about conveying their knowledge in a much more laborious way: chalk, board, and likely tears. It wasn’t all in vain, though; 1961 was the year that the first man–a Russian cosmonaut–entered space, and the United States was scrambling to catch up. NASA scientists with their board of calculations, 1961. As for this photograph, probably the photojournalist asked them to fill the board with complicated-looking equations…

History of Math Timeline

Biblical Christian World View

You can thank this Greek mathematician for your annual Pi Day celebration.

Equations on a blackboard

Mathematics is at the heart of science and our daily lives.

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