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MathHist 1840  Robert Stawell Ball, an Irish astronomer and popular writer, was born July 1, 1840. In 1864, Ball became tutor to the three children of William Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse, who had built the largest telescope in the world on his estate in Ireland,
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#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day📚⌨️ Resources for the study of Alan Turing (born 23 June 1912): Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (2005) & The Essential Turing (2004) edited by B. Jack Copeland (#HistSci Collections @OU_Libraries) #MathHist #PrideMonth
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A #ThrowbackThursday shout-out to this great group of students from Dr. Richard Velasco’s @oueducation class. I had a blast with them during their visit to the 5th floor #SpecColls last week! #SciEdu #HistSci #HistSTM #HistMath #MathHist
I taught my very first graduate seminar class last night, and I think I already love teaching graduate seminars.
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#MathHist 2004 Google does a doodle in honor of Gaston Julia's 111th birthday, but a day early by my calculation. My records show his birthday is Feb 3. (It's me vrs Google, .... Choose sides people!)
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Title page and chapter on multiplication & division from Sommaire de l'algebre (1623) by Denis Henrion (bit.ly/3GAb5n8 #HistSci Collections @OU_Libraries) #MathMonday #MathHist #HistMath #algebra
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#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day📚 Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita (1523) by Luca Pacioli Harry W. Bass Business History Collection @OU_Libraries #TypographyThursday #MathHist #HistMath #HistSTM #RareBooks #BookHistory
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(MathHist) “It is said in these versions that [Pythagoras] fled to nearby Metapontum but in the ensuing fight, having reached a field of sacred beans, chose to die at the hands of his enemies rather than trample the plants” may be the best sentence I’ve ever read from a textbook
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#WinterBooks and #Holiday-themed items from #SpecialCollections @OU_Libraries: View 1611 book on #snow by Kepler (born #OTD 1571) in #OULibraries Digital Collections bit.ly/3Fy3kLr #RareBooks #MathHist #HistSci
#WinterBooks and #Holiday-themed items from #SpecialCollections @OU_Libraries: 2014 edition of Kepler’s The Six-Cornered Snowflake, one of several books in “Let It Snow” case in Holiday pop-up exhibit (Visit 5th floor Bizzell Mon-Fri 9-5 until Dec 23)❄️
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#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day📚🚀 1969 @NASA Report co-authored by Katherine G. Johnson paired with Hidden Figures (2016) by Margot Lee Shetterly (available @OU_Libraries & #HistSci #SpecColls) #PiDay #mathhist #WomensHistoryMonth bit.ly/3cy4QzK
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#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day📚 Pacioli’s Summa de arithmetica (1523) from Bass Business History Collection @OU_Libraries, paired with Mathematical Magic Show (1977) by Martin Gardner (born Oct 21, 1914) #OTD #histmath #mathhist #arithmetic @G4GCelebration
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Some #math love today from the #HistSci Collections @OU_Libraries in honor of Martin #Gardner (born 21 Oct 1914) #OTD #mathhist #histmath #puzzles
Celebrating Martin Gardner (born #OTD 1914) with some of his works held in our collection #mathematics #puzzles #popsci
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#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day📚🟡 Opera geometrica (1644) by Evangelista Torricelli (born 15 October 1608) bit.ly/2H7LOEw (#HistSci Collections @OU_Libraries) #OTD #earlymodern #geometry #histmath #mathhist
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#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day 🔺 1543 Italian edition of Euclid’s Elements (#HistSci Collections @OU_Libraries) bit.ly/2Fl0bEi #OUItalyWeek @OUinArezzo @OUItalian @oucis #histmath #mathhist #geometry #rarebooks
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Replying to @OU_Libraries
Do you❤️math & #rarebooks? Then also take a look at our 1482 edition of Euclid’s Elements, previously on display in #GalileosWorld Exhibit #histmath #mathhist #MathMonday🟧🔵🔺 bit.ly/2Nk4cKf
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After reading this post by @rmathematicus, view Institutionum geometricarum (1535) by Dürer (born #OTD 1471) in #OULibraries Digital Collections: bit.ly/36pEfl1 #mathhist #histmath #histsci

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Happy birthday to Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018), @NASA’s first chief astronomer. In a time when women were discouraged from studying math and science, Roman became a research astronomer and was instrumental in taking @NASAHubble from an idea to reality: go.nasa.gov/2WCv4ug
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Today's pairing of #campus scenes & #book views: Disc Ruin sculpture @UofOklahoma & page from Divina proportione (1509) by Pacioli (#HistSci #SpecColls @OU_Libraries) bit.ly/3feN7Ou #histmath #mathhist #typography #SciArt
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#SpecialCollections Book-A-Day📚 For #Shakespeare’s birthday week: 1570 edition of Euclid’s Elements with preface by John Dee (#HistSci #SpecialCollections @OU_Libraries) #rarebooks #histmath #mathhist #geometry #MathMonday bit.ly/2KfVZoO
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#SpecialCollections Book-A-Day📚 #Euclid’s Elements in color for “the greater ease of learners” (1847) by Oliver Byrne #histmath #mathhist #geometry #mathematics #SciArt #MathAtHome bit.ly/3a7KVnY 🟡🔺🟩
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