Category Archives: History

More talk about numbers

At the end of this post we had arrived at the rational numbers and were able to derive four mathematical operations. At first sight this might look like an impressive achieving, taking into account the tools we set ourselves to … Continue reading

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Let’s talk about numbers

In this post I intend to tell a concise and perfected story of how and why numbers came to be. Please don’t expect this to be a factual account of all the trial and tribulations that accompanied the process. So … Continue reading

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A fast and first look into Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn, born in 1922 and passed away in 1996, got interested about the history of Physics during his Ph.D. studies. He was in charge of a course, for humanities students, that was about the episodes in the history of … Continue reading

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