Stephen Wolfram on the Story of Math

Stephen Wolfram on the Story of Math

• If you never had history of math, this is worth while video to watch.
• It's a fun, informal talk about mostly math ideas in history up to 1500s.
• The main points are:

• Notion of numbers.
• Number Representation. Egyptian Greek Roman Arabic
• Number operator representation.
• Variable concept and representation.
• Fractions, negative numbers, complex numbers, radicals, polynomial roots, and their representation.
• Prime numbers.

one thing Wolfram mentioned i never thought about, is that the operation precedence procedure