Imryn Math History

In terms of numbers having personality, I definitely think that this is something that would be interesting to introduce to my students. Personally, the only times that I have ever really associated numbers with anything would be by jersey numbers in sports. Whether it be my own numbers that I personally wore while playing basketball or hockey, or favourite professional players of mine. I will sometimes see a number, 23 for example, and associate it with a player, in this case Michael Jordan. When choosing a jersey number back when I played sports, I would tend to lean towards numbers that had a significant meaning to who I was. I was born on the 11th month (November), on the 21st day, in 1998. So the numbers 11, 21, and 98 had always been ones that I would lean towards. In the Mayan culture numbers had significance as well. Each number had a specific meaning associated with it. I found this to be very interesting and I ended up spending about a half an hour looking into the differen...

The first thing that I thought was interesting after reading this article was how much math has progressed from medieval times to now. With the way that technology has progressed from medieval times it is quite understandable how rapidly mathematics would have changed. One thing that is interesting is that the foundations of these calculations are still the same. It is quite interesting that these calculations have gotten so complex since that time. The second thing that I found interesting was the wide array of mathematics subjects taught by many of the universities in medieval times. Prior to reading this article, I didn't even know that universities were that complex during those times! I found it really interesting that universities all over Europe and around the world taught such complex topics, and that they had professors who taught at various universities and were actually quite experienced. Lastly, I found it very interesting that the date of Easter had to be calculate...