Peter Schumer

Nov 8, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Peter Schumer

This work details a great deal of the history and manifest forms of fractions within mathematics. Rational numbers are fractions having either a terminating or repeating decimal expansion. Determining their decimal expansions, as well as the period length of repeating decimals, is completely worked out. Modern base 10 decimal expansions are compared with ancient Babylonian base 60 sexagesimal expansions.

Mar 8, 2024 | atlasobscura.com | Peter Schumer |Sarah Laskow |Eric Grundhauser |Uri Bram

Math is everywhere—in landscapes, in language, in the kitchen, on the calendar. On those calendars, March 14 is the mathiest of dates—Pi Day, in honor of the mathematical constant that begins 3.14. To celebrate this year, we’re bringing you the best of Atlas Obscura’s words about numbers.

Aug 17, 2023 | bigthink.com | Peter Schumer

Even though x is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, it appears throughout American culture – from Stan Lee’s X-Men superheroes to The X-Files TV series. The letter x often symbolizes something unknown, with an air of mystery that can be appealing – just look at Elon Musk with SpaceX, Tesla’s Model X, and now X as a new name for Twitter. You might be most familiar with x from math class. Many algebra problems use x as a variable, to stand in for an unknown quantity.

Aug 10, 2023 | scientificamerican.com | Peter Schumer

Even though x is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, it appears throughout American culture – from Stan Lee’s X-Men superheroes to “The X-Files” TV series. The letter x often symbolizes something unknown, with an air of mystery that can be appealing – just look at Elon Musk with SpaceX, Tesla’s Model X, and now X as a new name for Twitter. You might be most familiar with x from math class. Many algebra problems use x as a variable, to stand in for an unknown quantity.

Aug 3, 2023 | phys.org | Peter Schumer

Even though "x" is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, it appears throughout American culture—from Stan Lee's X-Men superheroes to "The X-Files" TV series. The letter x often symbolizes something unknown, with an air of mystery that can be appealing—just look at Elon Musk with SpaceX, Tesla's Model X, and now X as a new name for Twitter.