Gabrielle BirchakEunice Newton Foote: Climate Scientist and SuffragetteOne summer day, on August 23, 1856, a gathering of scientists occurred in the city of Albany, New York. It was the eighth annual…·10 min read·3 days ago----
Gabrielle BirchakHypatia: The Sum of Her Life — Chapter OneALEXANDRIA’S DESCENT·5 min read·Aug 1, 2023----
Gabrielle BirchakThe Matilda EffectWe are a month away from the 2022 Nobel season. Last year, the recipients of the 2021 prize honorably deserved this prestigious award…·9 min read·Sep 2, 2022--1--1
Gabrielle BirchakHipparchus: The Trigonometry of the CosmosSpace. It’s not just the final frontier. It’s not just an infinite three-dimensional platform where entities have position and direction…·11 min read·Aug 17, 2022----
Gabrielle BirchakArchimedes and his PiArchimedes was born in 287 BCE in Syracuse, Sicily. He lived 75 years, which, for that time, was quite an accomplishment of good health…·9 min read·Jul 27, 2022----
Gabrielle BirchakEmilie du Châtelet’s True Love was Not VoltaireGabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet, also known as Emilie du Châtelet was born in Paris, France, on December…·12 min read·Jul 4, 2022----
Gabrielle BirchakDoes Time Travel Have a History?Our love and fascination for time travel are prevalent in all we see in films and television. And it is a most beautiful concept that…·10 min read·Jun 16, 2022----
Gabrielle BirchakItaly’s Diabolical World Of Renaissance MathWhen I last signed off, it was 1535, and Tartaglia had won the Tartaglia-Fiore mathematical duel. Tartaglia was a rock star on the…·15 min read·May 10, 2022----
Gabrielle BirchakWas it for the math? Or the money?In my last Medium article, I note that in 1494 Fra Luca Pacioli published his book Summa de Arithmetica Geometria Proportione, commonly…·11 min read·Apr 27, 2022--1--1
Gabrielle BirchakThis Accountant is Fire!This article is the beginning of a multipart series on the story of mathematicians Niccolò Tartaglia, Gerolamo Cardano and Lodovico…·8 min read·Apr 13, 2022----