Math History

Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun! Based on a true story, this inspiring audiobook is about a curious, tinkering girl who grew up to become one of the first Black female engineers for NASA; for fans of Ada Twist, Scientist...

Just prior to the end of the previous millennium, Dr. Bread accepted a full-time position to do research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. While she is prohibited from revealing classified information, Janet Bread can and does describe the evidence of a miscarriage of justice in the nation’s most notorious espionage case from the 1940s. As a compassionate individual with a sense of purpose and loyalty to the truth, she found the callous mistreatment of certain participants in a disinformation project to be deeply disturbing.

An undocumented activist and a social scientist come together to tally of the structural costs of undocumented life An inhumane math pervades this country: even as our government extracts labor and often taxes from undocumented workers, it excludes these same workers from its social safety net...

The book Scripts and Songs on Science and Math 2 is a collection for school-age students that covers the variety of topics in science with the help of musical theatrical plays and material. They were created to help learn science by singing. It includes scripts about the creation of the periodic table of the chemical elements by Mendeleyev, the invention of the microscope by A. Leeuwenhoek in biology, the discovery of Newton’s Laws, developing Algebra, and other science-math topics. The songs and scripts speak to both the mind and heart.

In March 2006, the world’s richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with ­million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken...

A pattern is a repeated design that is found everywhere in our world and even in outer space. All around you are both simple patterns and complicated patterns. The spiral of a seashell is very complex. But, there are patterns more complicated than a seashell. When did humans discover or invent patterns? There are cave paintings that are around 10,000 years old. They show hands in a pattern with 5 fingers.

Thanks to ancient Greece, we know more about philosophy, politics, the democratic system, mythology, art, the Olympics, and many, many lingual references imbedded in almost every European language. Ancient Greece has had a significant impact on many concepts we still hold true today.