“She was able to discover a new curve are people still discover new math today?”
“oh yeah of course, a lot of it has to do with things like cryptography, information theory, but sometimes problems no one could solve for 100s of years finally give up the ghost as well.”
“Are people make new math now that will be taught in high school some day?”
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I was thinking about this recently. I was reading about Simon Stevin, a Flemish guy from the 1500s who introduced (reinvented?) decimal fractions to Europe. Now taught in primary […]
“Well I think it’s possible. It takes many people and a long time to refine ideas and make them more useful- high school math is the most polished and condensed. It’s like a Greatest Hits […]
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