Blog Post #14: Assignment 2 takeaways from 4 presentations from each day (Nov. 10 & 15)

First day: 

1) Nadine's Presentation on Permutations on Combinations: Church bells rung based on calculated permutations to produce different tunes. 

2) Marlaina's Presentation on the History of Conic Sections: Historically recorded version of drawing circles by keeping one's elbow at the central point of the circle and rotating your hand in a circular motion.

3) Yiwei's Presentation on the History of Proportional Reasoning: The explanation about the translation of texts between Italians and Chinese on Rational Numbers to spread mathematical knowledge internationally. 

4) Alan's Presentation on Measurements and Units: 3 pieces of corn can approximate an inch. 

Second day:

 1) Ivan's presentation on the History of Modern Measurement: The measurement of distance using only time by the Indigenous people, as we still use this method casually in modern day,

2) Austin's presentation on the History of Combinatorics: A particular combinatorics puzzle existed in different cultures and eras, from Ancient Egypt to an English nursery rhyme in the early 1700's.

3) Emilie's presentation on the History of Geometric Constructions: Origami Applications in Satellites in order for the device to fold up.

4) Victor's presentation on the History of Non-Euclidean Geometry: The fact that there is no proof or disproof for the parallel postulate.