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From Spreadsheets to Saving Mankind

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I have a thing for spreadsheets and have for decades. In a recent backup, I found 10 Excel spreadsheets in my Math History folder. The largest spreadsheet holds the entire history of Mathematics and is 998 KB. Yeah, it is big. It starts from 40,000 BC with the first artifact found in Africa and leads to the implementation of Common Core. It includes Babylon’s first calendar from 4,700 BC, Heron’s practical geometry in 150 A.D., and the amazing preservation of Greece’s math books by Islam’s greatest mathematicians. I am Gabrielle, and I am a spreadsheet addict. (This is where you say, “Hello Gabrielle.”) Before I owned a personal computer, I hand made my own spreadsheets. I am very emotionally attached to these spreadsheets. My favorite handmade spreadsheet that I created is the History of Art, where I tracked all of the art artifacts I have read about, from the Upper Paleolithic era in 35,000 BC to Roy Lichtenstein’s work in the 1990s. One of my many hand drawn spreadsheets

Infinite Halves to Get Here

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Welcome to my new blog Infinite Halves.  I have a Bachelors in Journalism and a Bachelors in Mathematics, all of which includes undergraduate studies in Physics and Chemistry. I have over 20 years experience as a writer and am gratefully published in a few magazines. My background as a science and technology writer includes time working with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and with Amgen.  My goal in life is to empower anyone who feels that they aren't smart enough. As a kid growing up in the theater, I felt that my life would be limited to entertaining others. Though I relished my science classes and was enamored with my own homebrew chemistry kits, I never considered myself smart enough to be a math or science person. Singing and making others laugh came easy. It wasn't until I entered college and realized how much I loved and enjoyed science and math that my life felt complete. For the first time in my life, as a Physics major, I felt like a whole person. All 4