The night he realized what he discovered, Squamish mathematics historian and professor Glen Van Brummelen ran up and down the halls of the dorm where he was staying to teach a math camp, looking for ...

How did the decimal point come to be? - the dot that divides whole numbers. Historians are revising its origin story. Glen Van Brummelen studies the history of math and astronomy at Trinity Western ...

Math historian Glen Van Brummelen came across decimal points in Giovanni Bianchini's manuscript, Tabulae primi mobilis B. Van Brummelen / Historia Mathematica, 2024 For years, historians thought ...

Historians have discovered what may be the world's first decimal point, in an ancient manuscript written 150 years before its next known appearance. There have been many ways to split integers, but ...