MATH HISTORY NEWS & VIEWS: SUPPLEMENT #1
Occasionally, I will send you links to additional internet information
regarding classroom discussions, etc.....They are not required reading, but
might be fun to browse...when you find the time or have nothing else to
do...or want to avoid doing something else!
Prehistoric Mathematics: http://people.bath.ac.uk/ma2jc/prehistoric.html
Great summary of the development of a variety of number systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_system
or
http://www.math.chalmers.se/Math/Grundutb/GU/MAN250/S04/Number_System
s.pdf
or http://www.ishkbooks.com/mathematics.pdf
Interesting overview of the history of the development of number symbols plus...:
http://www.geocities.com/Omegaman_UK/numbers.html
Information on the probable source of our number symbols:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Indian_numerals.html
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals
History of symbol and use of zero:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Zero.html
What happens if the Golden Ratio Phi was the base of your number system:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio_base
Names for Large Numbers (not always consistent):
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/large.html or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers or
http://home.hetnet.nl/~vanadovv/BignumbyN.html or
http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/numbers_names.php or in Japanese
http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/japanese/largenumber.html
More on the Quipu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
Number mysticism: http://www.crcsite.org/numbers.htm
Gematria: http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/g/gematria.html
or (Greek version):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria
or (Hebrew version):
http://www.inner.org/gematria/gematria.htm
Example of religious view of numbers (and Bible code).....:
http://www.nmsr.org/biblecod.htm
or
http://www.kolumbus.fi/gematria/
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code
or
http://www.exodus2006.com/3code.htm
or special to 666:
http://www.religion-cults.com/antichrist/666.htm
or
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11134/beasts-real-mark-devalued-to-616
And changing the value of pi (humor?):
http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.htm
Interesting use of the government in assigning names via numbers:
http://www.govexec.com/features/0305-01/0305-01s2.htm
And a psychedelic, aggressive-hardcore rock band takes on the number 338 as
its name:
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061013/FEATURES/6
10130658/0/PODCAST0701
And more notes on Mr. 1069: The North Dakota court case:
http://www.court.state.nd.us/court/opinions/9205.htm
The Minnesota court case:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915817,00.html
And the judge's decision:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919350,00.html
His real meaning: http://farshores.org/ji04cune.htm
He made it onto Water Cronkite's CBS Evening News show (11/25/1977):
http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1977-11/1977-11-25-CBS-16.html
And Tom Snyder interviewed him on a late night television show:
http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/04/0804/081104.html
And motivated a Peanuts comic: The spiky haired kid and the two twins
who have no speaking roles are "5", "3" and "4" respectively - or is that "4" and
"3"? Either way, they were in the strip around 1964 when Sparky wrote "5" in as a
parody of a then-recent news story of a guy who was trying to legally change his
name to a number. "5's" parents were, as you probably guessed, "1" and "2", and
their last name was their Zip Code, which had only been around for a year or
so: http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld/blogs/122k5.htm