Mathsbaron lessons
Maths Stories & Fun Facts
Stories, history and curious facts from the world of mathematics.
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The Largest known prime number
What prime numbers are, how the hunt for ever-larger primes began, and today’s record: a Mersenne prime with over 41…
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Who Invented the Equal Sign?
In 1557 Robert Recorde drew two parallel lines to save himself writing “is equal to” — the story of the…
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Pi Day
Why 14 March is Pi Day, what π actually measures, and how Archimedes pinned down its value with 96-sided polygons.
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Ramanujan’s Number
The famous taxi-cab story of Hardy and Ramanujan, and why 1729 is the smallest number that is a sum of…
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Mathematics Quote of the day
A line from Pythagoras on the geometry in music and the music in the spheres.
