APPENDIX: ONE: The nature of proof -- TWO: The Egyptian calendar -- THREE: Great pyramid mysticism -- FOUR: Regarding Morris Kline's views in Mathematics, A Cultural Approach -- FIVE: The Pythagorean ...

An animated guide to the development of fractions. The characters compare the practical use of Egyptian fractions to divide objects manually with the vulgar fractions we use for abstract maths. An ...

WHEN Prof. T. Eric Peet's handsome and in every respect admirable edition of the Rhind Papyrus appeared in 1923, anyone who read it must have felt that we had afr long last (nearly fifty years had ...

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