I’ve known Mary Helen Dellinger my whole life. That’s because she’s my cousin, born a whole two months before I was (a fact she never let me forget when we were kids). Growing up in Virginia as we both did,
While the development of numbers continued for many, many centuries, even before the discovery or invention of zero, the Greeks were responsible for a long, long period filled with mathematical advances. By 600 B.C., a fellow named Thales of Miletus brought Babylonian
Was mathematics invented or discovered? (I’ll give you a second or two to really think about that.) Most non-mathematicians have never really given that question much thought. Math has just always been there. An isosceles triangle has always had two