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    Robyn Arianrhod

    Robyn Arianrhod

    Science writer and a mathematician

    Robyn Arianrhod is a science writer and a mathematician affiliated with Monash University’s School of Mathematics, where she researches general relativity and history of science. She is the author of the critically acclaimed books "Einstein’s Heroes", "Seduced by Logic", and "Thomas Harriot".

    A photograph of an arched stone bridge with a plaque
    This 180-year-old graffiti scribble was actually an equation that changed the history of mathematics

    A photograph of the arched stone bridge that William Rowan Hamilton scratched his equation into.

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    • 'The beauty of symbolic equations is that it's much easier to … see a problem at a glance': How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically

      "Even the +, −, =, and x signs we take for granted only came into widespread use in the 17th century. Which means that the earlier algebraists we know of … all had expressed their equations mostly in words or pictorial word images"

      By Robyn Arianrhod Published 30 June 24

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