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Math Science History with Gabrielle Birchak

Math! Science! History! is about the history of people, theories, and discoveries that have moved our scientific progress forward and spurred us on to unimaginable discoveries. Join me for a little math, a little science, and a little history. All in a little bit of time.

Aug 23, 2022

Hipparchus was one of the first mathematicians who trigonometrically defined his astronomical observations through stereographic projection, which is incredibly awe-inspiring! 

To read the podcast's transcripts and to see a visual description of stereographic projection, please visit me at


Aug 2, 2022

In June 2022, Emma Haruka Iwao and her team at Google computed pi to 100 trillion digits! But this number 3.1415, first determined by Archimedes, only had three digits. Archimedes left a huge impression on the world of math! 

To read the podcast's transcripts, visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com. For more information...


Jul 12, 2022

Many people think that Emilie du Chatelet's one true love was Voltaire, but it was not! Who (or what) did she love more?!

To read the podcast's transcripts, visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com

To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon, visit https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h

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Jun 21, 2022

Yes! Time Travel has a past! The history of time travel goes as far back as 400 BCE! Time travel stories empower us with insight into how we could have corrected the past or how we can change the future! Where would you like to travel to?!

To read the podcast's transcripts, visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com
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May 31, 2022

We have many female contemporaries of women in science today. Believe it or not, even in ancient history, Rome had a few exceptional female contemporaries in science as well!

For more information on Hypatia, you can listen here: https://mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/ep-15-hypatia-of-alexandria 

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