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2. 105 Fun Facts About Science, History, Celebrities, and More - AOL

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   Nails grow faster in the summer because of increased vitamin exposure. Talk about quick thinking, information travels up to 350 miles per hour in the brain. All mammals get goosebumps. The muscles ...

3. Mathematics - Wikipedia

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   Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include number theory (the study of numbers), algebra (the study of formulas and related structures), geometry (the study ...

4. History of mathematics - Wikipedia

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   e. The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments have come to light only in a few locales. From 3000 BC the Mesopotamian states of Sumer, Akkad and ...

5. Ancient Egyptian mathematics - Wikipedia

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   An interesting feature of ancient Egyptian mathematics is the use of unit fractions. [7] The Egyptians used some special notation for fractions such as ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠, ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠ and ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠ and in some texts for ⁠ 3 / 4 ⁠, but other fractions were all written as unit fractions of the form ⁠ 1 / n ⁠ or sums of such unit ...

6. Mathematical puzzle - Wikipedia

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   Mathematical puzzle. Mathematical puzzles make up an integral part of recreational mathematics. They have specific rules, but they do not usually involve competition between two or more players. Instead, to solve such a puzzle, the solver must find a solution that satisfies the given conditions. Mathematical puzzles require mathematics to solve ...

7. Recreational mathematics - Wikipedia

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   Some of the more well-known topics in recreational mathematics are Rubik's Cubes, magic squares, fractals, logic puzzles and mathematical chess problems, but this area of mathematics includes the aesthetics and culture of mathematics, peculiar or amusing stories and coincidences about mathematics, and the personal lives of mathematicians.