Relaxing 2+ Hours of Math History to Help You Sleep, Study, or Focus 📚

Relax with over 2 hours of calm math history, made to help you fall asleep, study, or focus. Listen to stories about how math started long ago—from counting in ancient times to big ideas from smart people like Newton and Gauss.

There’s no music, just a quiet voice talking about numbers, shapes, and cool ideas from the past. It’s perfect for bedtime or quiet time.

Check out more videos about math, science, and fun brain puzzles to help you relax, learn, and drift off to sleep.

Timestamps:
0:00:03 - 0:02:37 - Babylon's Base-60 Legacy
0:02:37 - 0:07:38 - The Lebombo Bone
0:07:38 - 0:13:18 - Egypt's Art of Unit Fraction
0:13:18 - 0:18:49 - Euclid's Elements
0:18:49 - 0:24:07 - The Rhind Papyrus
0:24:07 - 0:29:14 - Liu Hui & Shape of the Circle
0:29:14 - 0:34:57 - Birth of Zero in India
0:34:57 - 0:40:06 - Hipparchus
0:40:06 - 0:45:21 - Al-Khwarizmi & Algebra
0:45:21 - 0:50:25 - Algorithms
0:50:25 - 0:56:21 - Geometry in the Sulba Sutras
0:56:21 - 01:02:08 - Sangaku
01:02:08 - 01:06:57 - Napier's Bones
01:06:57 - 01:12:36 - Calculus Controversy
01:12:36 - 01:18:14 - Hilbert's 23 Problems
01:18:14 - 01:23:40 - Gauss
01:23:40 - 01:30:01 - Boole & Algebra of Logic
01:30:01 - 01:35:17 - Mystical Numbers of Pythagoreans
01:35:17 - 01:40:17 - Omar Khayyam
01:40:17 - 01:46:00 - Baghdad's House of Wisdom
01:46:00 - 01:51:43 - Decimal Time
01:51:43 - 01:57:10 - Cardano
01:57:10 - 02:01:55 - Mathema
02:01:55 - 02:07:47 - Archimedes' Calculus
02:07:47 - 02:12:19 - China's Early Use of Negative Numbers
02:12:19 - 02:18:37 - Hypatia
02:18:37 - 02:23:46 - Timeless Abacus
02:23:46 - 02:29:29 - Logarithms & Stars
02:29:29 - 02:35:05 - Peano's Axioms
02:35:05 - 02:40:29 - Galois
02:40:29 - 02:45:38 - The Interest That Didn't Stop
02:45:38 - 02:50:47 - The Many Collaborations of Paul Erdös

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