IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This yellow aluminum circular slide ...

While some (math-phobics) still may relish the simple beauty and non-threatening functionality of the abacus, there are those who have made the transition to more challenging computing gadgets—many ...

Logarithms are a common idea today, even though we don’t use them as often as we used to. After all, one of the major uses of logarithms is to simplify computations, and computers do that just fine ...

I like aviator styled watches. Some of them have a a dial on the outside that can be used to compute speed/fuel supply/Oil pressure, but I have never learned how to use these functions myself.

Around here we mostly enjoy slide rules. We even have our own collections including some cylindrical and circular ones. But [Mathologer] discusses a recent Reddit post that explains a circular slide ...

The slide rule, sometimes called a slipstick, was a type of mechanical analog computer. It was and still is, used primarily for multiplication and division, and also for functions such as roots, ...

Recently I overheard two high-school teachers say that many math teachers no longer teach students about significant figures. So, the young people don't realize 3.3 times 3.3 equals 11, not 10.89. One ...