From Spreadsheets to Saving Mankind
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