Aug 23, 2022
Hipparchus was one of the first mathematicians who
trigonometrically defined his astronomical observations through
stereographic projection, which is incredibly
awe-inspiring!
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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!
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