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An introduction to the mathematics of the Golden Age of medieval Islam

 The first thing that surprises me is how early people have started wondering about the shape of earth and the circumference. An extraordinary force of curiosity must have been present for people to go and tackle these problems that most of us today would not bother. Maybe physics major would design their experiment on measuring such a thing, but most of us is content with our ground being flat because that's what it appears to us. Another surprising thing is the Islam's desire to learn from other culture. It was mentioned that they sent out people to gather and translate copies of works that are important to the Greeks, and that doesn't seem to immediately benefit them in some way. Again, it seems to be some intellectual thoughts that drive them to do so. Even today, when translating might not be as tedious or difficult, quite a lot of work remains in their own language because we don't actively seek to translate everything (though I'm sure small groups of people a...
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Assignment 3: Artwork on Math History

 As a group (Ian, Ealin, Mariana) we have chosen tow write a short story on the life of Alan Turing and his contribution to the modern world. Our short story (A clickable link). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jfDYDyK-tOTb9baDtN9_-PbIMbMVTYFB3ef2qSi48s0/edit?usp=sharing (if you cannot click the link, you can copy this and paste into the browser of your choice) Our presentation (A clickable link) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TE2YRjlo5P95dFc6Xq-zM49bjyhZwmytjG_eXiVRstU/edit?usp=sharing (if you cannot click the link, you can copy this and paste into the browser of your choice)   Group Explication of Research     As a group, we chose to write a story about Alan Turing, an aspiring mathematician who contributed an enormous amount during the WWII period, but died as a criminal. Through our research of Alan Turing using the references below, we thought his life story and mathematical contributions would best be told in the artistic format of a short sto...
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Alice Major on Mayan and other numbers

 I think the quote "each of the positive integers was one of [Ramanujan's] personal friends" aligns very well with the results of Alice Major's paper: people tend to associate numbers with properties, an those association tend to be cultural based and not random. It's quite interesting that such a simple association in people that might come off as natural can be so involved in terms of brain structure and how we process and react to information. Neuroscience must be an interesting yet difficult field of study as we try to unfold the mystery of the brain. (Although I have presented already, I just wanted to say that John von Neumann's proposed self-replication machine predicts certain properties needed for it to happen: we need to have blueprints to replicate, the complexity required to self-replicate and self-repair. Even today, we cannot build a robot that fixes itself, but humans have been replicating (though not by oneself) and can self-repair to some degr...
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