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...world around us. Other answers are more global, such as: within people experience life, anywhere and everywhere. Reasons given for the importance of mathematics (prompt 2) often portray a more personal view of what mathematics is ‘about’. They include: its beauty and the support it gives to other disciplines it gives a different perspective on things it is...

...world for his Protestant religious treatise A plaine discovery of the whole Revelation of Saint John (1594), a well-received work which was translated into several foreign languages. Napier’s interest in mathematics, and in computational methods in particular, seems to have started in his early twenties (in the 1570s), and continued mostly unknown to the wider world...

...World War II. Dallas Campbell: Yeah. Frank Drake: But this was the first attempt in the United States to get into the radio astronomy business seriously. And here in America the tradition was to use the equatorial configuration which allowed you to track things just by rotating around one axis that was parallel to the axis of the Earth. (Uh, huh) That was traditional. It...