Stephen Wolfram on the Story of Math
Stephen Wolfram on the Story of Math
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QtDnAkdzxE
Math Storytelling: Part One
Wolfram
Sep 25, 2023
- If you never had history of math, this is worth while video to watch.
- It's a fun, informal talk about mostly math ideas in history up to 1500s.
- The main points are:
- Notion of numbers.
- Number Representation. Egyptian Greek Roman Arabic
- Number operator representation.
- Variable concept and representation.
- Fractions, negative numbers, complex numbers, radicals, polynomial roots, and their representation.
- Prime numbers.
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one thing Wolfram mentioned i never thought about, is that the operation precedence procedure
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