Mobile and Wireless: Inside IBM's Math App for the iPad
To celebrate the history of math and its impact on the world, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has released Minds of Modern Mathematics, a new iPad app. The new app reimagines a classic 50-foot infographic on the history of math created by the husband-and-wife design team of Charles and Ray Eames and displayed at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. The app, which can be downloaded from the iPad App Store, is an interactive experience for students, teachers and tech fans that helps illustrate how mathematics has advanced art, science, music and architecture. It reinvents the massive timeline on the history of math from 1000 AD to 1960, which was used as part of "Mathematica: A World of Numbers... and Beyond "IBM's milestone 1964 World's Fair exhibit. Users can click through more than 500 biographies, milestones and images of artifacts culled from the Mathematica exhibit, as well as a high-resolution image of the original timeline poster. The app also includes the "IBM Mathematics Peep Show," a series of playful, two-minute animated films by Charles and Ray Eames that offer lessons on mathematical concepts, from exponents to the way the ancient Greeks measured the Earth. Here, eWEEK captures some images from the IBM math app.