mathematics

16 09, 2017

West Asian numbers – Ancient Mesopotamia

By |2019-10-15T08:00:49-07:00September 16th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on West Asian numbers – Ancient Mesopotamia

Neolithic counting tokens Counting with tally sticks and tokens The earliest way of writing down numbers was to carve notches in tally sticks, and this method spread from Africa all over Europe and [...]

16 09, 2017

West Asian mathematics – history of math

By |2020-11-08T16:47:23-08:00September 16th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on West Asian mathematics – history of math

History of math: Sumerian multiplication table (2700 BC) Cuneiform multiplication table Once people in West Asia figured out how to write down numbers, about 3500 BC, they quickly began to want to use cuneiform to [...]

10 09, 2017

Before 10,000 BC – World history timeline

By |2018-04-25T23:04:13-07:00September 10th, 2017|Africa, History|Comments Off on Before 10,000 BC – World history timeline

Sibidu Cave, South Africa. People lived here from about 77,000 BC until about 38,000 years ago. In the early years of human history, beginning with the earliest humans about two million years [...]

4 09, 2017

Plotinus and the Neoplatonists – Roman philosophy

By |2017-09-04T11:34:58-07:00September 4th, 2017|Philosophy, Romans|Comments Off on Plotinus and the Neoplatonists – Roman philosophy

Bust of Plotinus (Ostia, ca. 250 AD) Around the time of Jesus, philosophers (and regular people) in West Asia and the Roman Empire started to think a lot about what happened to you after you died. [...]

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