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Published: July 30, 2021 at 7:27 am It is impossible today to imagine a world without what are known as Hindu-Arabic numerals. These nine symbols or digits (1 to 9) and zero (0) – crucially, together with the system of arranging them in place value – are at the very heart of so much of modern life. Without them there would be no computers and no space travel. Indeed, there would be precious little science, technology or medicine of any kind, to say nothing of mathematics itself. A...

Almost certainly the most important development in mathematics during the Renaissance was the introduction of algebra to the European academic canon. For part of this appropriation process it followed the same path as the base ten place value number system and the Hindu-Arabic numerals, with which it was in the European context intimately intertwined. However,…

Caisson on the move for BP’s Senegal project The first caisson for the BP-led Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project in Senegal has left the port of Dakar. Updated: 27/04/2021, 3:43 pm Caissons in Senegal Source: Bygging-Uddeman Register here for the Energy Voice daily newsletter, bringing you key news and insight from across the global energy landscape. Thank you for signing up to our newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The first caisson for the BP-led Greater T...

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Ortelius was a wealthy businessman and paid for the publication of his Theatrum out of his own pocket, but he was not a printer and had to employ others to print it for him. Abraham Ortelius by Peter Paul Rubens , Museum Plantin-Moretus via Wikimedia Commons A man who printed, not the first 1570 editions, but the important expanded 1579 Latin edition, with its bibliography ( Catalogus Auctorum), index ( Index Tabularum), the maps with text on the back, followed by a re...

Grand Tortue Ahmeyim for BP: first rock shipment in Nouakchott (Mauritania) For the Grand Tortue Ahmeyim project carried out for BP and its partners, Eiffage Génie Civil Marine has so far extracted 1.3 million tons of rock from the Mauritanian quarry at Akjoujtd, in the Wilaya of Inchiri. These materials are transported on a 17-hectare platform built within the Autonomous Port of Nouakchott Port de lAmitié (PANPA) where, since January 11th, they have been loaded, at a rate of 30,000 tons per...