My exams are in less than a month… I‘m not stressed out quite yet but work is piling up a bit. I‘m still working on my reading list for my literature exam that‘s due next week…
Went to visited a local castle for a class today and we got to tour the maison de plaisance in the garden. It had restored rokoko decor, stucco and murals and my pictures do it absolutely no justice.
30.08.21 This has been my life for the past few days… I tend to be more focussed in the evening so I‘ve been working consistently till 2am and I am. So tired.
But I finally have my 15 pages paper done!! I already had a friend read over it and according to her, I only need to change some wording, so no major rewrites! Only need to edit and add the images and then I can finally sleep -.-
I was offered a spontaneous free spot on a field trip - which is great in theory; in praxis I’ve been scrambling to produce two decent presentations in two weeks. Traveling really stresses me out but I’m nonetheless glad for this opportunity ☀️
Things That Weren’t Invented/Discovered By White People: Math Edition
Math: A lot of history texts will first mention math in terms of the Greeks, but math is a means of understanding the world. The first human mathematicians were ancient Africans from at least 35,000 BCE, as evidenced by mathematical artifacts like the Lebombo bone and the Ishango bone.
The Number Zero: The number zero is immensely important to do any form of advanced math. The first math sometimes had a placeholder value (like the zero in ‘10’), but the numerical quantity zero was invented only twice in all of human history. It appeared the Mesoamerican Olmecs (the civilization the predates the Maya) likely before the 4th century BCE. in India in the 7th century CE (and maybe as early as the 5th century).
The Pythagorean Theorem: Named after a Greek mathematician, the equation relating sides of a right triangle (a2 + b2 = c2) was in use in the First Babylonian Empire, now Iraq and Syria, over a thousand years earlier, around the 16th century BCE.
14.2.23 my baby @caramelcuppaccino 20 days language learning challenge 🤎 (watch me do the challenge and not the language learning) I’ll put two questions together, day 10: how do you enrich your vocabulary? day 11: is there a certain method you use to learn languages? yep, watching movies and series and then speaking to myself (most words that come out of my mouth probably don’t exist, but it’s useful to practice the pronunciation ok)
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