Tag: geometry
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The Secret Spiritual History of Calculus
from scientificamerican.com: In the 17th century Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri proposed that every plane is composed of an infinite number of lines and every solid of an infinite number of planes. One could use these “indivisibles,” he said, to calculate length, area and volume—an important step on the way to modern integral calculus. Swiss mathematician…
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‘Secrets In Plain Sight’
It’s admittedly long at three hours, but the video provides a veritable education on esoteric knowledge! “Secrets in Plain Sight” written, produced, and narrated by Scott Onstott.