A history of numbers and some modular arithmetic Nicole Rosenfeld
Different Number systems One Two Two and one Two two’s Much
Put up your hands What would people have done in… Rome Dubai Beijing Washington Tokyo
Ways of writing/recording
From Egypt to Cornwall As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives?
Zero
Why dividing by zero breaks maths
Modular arithmetic… what is it…?
How we can use it (solving problems) How can we tell that is not a square?
How we can use it (excitingly) Pisano
Finger counting challenge First I’ll show you Two challenges for the audience
Base 12
Some crazy systems Californian Yuki People and Charles XII of Sweden The Mayans and the French Negative bases
Is maths broken?