The Wild Ride of Math: From Goats to Rockets

Math Science History with Gabrielle Birchak

From tallying goats to launching rockets, this episode takes you on a fast-paced, lighthearted journey through the complete history of mathematics. Inspired by D.E. Smith's The History of Mathematics, this is the espresso version — goats, Greeks, calculus cage matches, infinity, and beyond.

3 Things Listeners Will Learn:

1. How early humans counted goats, stars, and time with sticks, pebbles, and sky-watching.
2. Why Newton and Leibniz's feud over calculus was the most brutal "cage match" in math history.
3. How modern math evolved into the language of infinity, chaos, quantum physics, and AI.

Resources Mentioned:

• The History of Mathematics by David Eugene Smith
• Euclid's Elements

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