IBM and the Eames Office: Minds of Modern Mathematics iPad app

In honor of Ray Eames' centennial, IBM and the Eames Office are pleased to introduce Minds of Modern Mathematics iPad app, an interactive history of mathematics originally conceived by the legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames as part of their groundbreaking IBM-sponsored exhibition, Mathematica: A World of Numbers...and Beyond.

Get a bird's-eye view of the entire history of math, including the explosion of discoveries in recent times.

See the rich interplay of ideas between contemporary mathematicians, culture and history.

Step through the entire timeline, one object at a time.

Discover each mathematician through a high-resolution portrait, detailed personal biography, achievements, related artifacts and links to online information resources.

Explore more than 500 high-resolution images of artifacts selected and painstakingly retouched from the original Mathematica exhibit.

View a fully navigable, ultra high-resolution version of the original Men of Modern Mathematics poster that has been proudly displayed in mathematics departments and classrooms around the world.

Watch nine original Eames educational films, experiencing these master educators' genius at making complex topics easy to understand.

Did you know? Facts and more inside the application:

The first French Pope, Pope Sylvester II, was accused of wizardry because of his scientific interests. He learned Hindu-Arabic numerals, and wrote on the abacus and other mathematical subjects.

Committed to logic, and finding it hard to give a logical basis for the rules of numerical calculation, the Greeks visualized numbers as lengths or areas of geometrical figures.

Fibonacci, a mathematician born in the Republic of Pisa, promoted the Indian numeral system in Europe with his book Liber Abaci, which was written in 1202.

Blaise Pascal did not attend school but learned classics from his father. He began to study geometry at the age of 12 when he discovered a theorem on his own.

Much of the alchemists' notation is in symbol form. The majority of these symbols are of Greek origin, while some come from Egyptian and Babylonian times.

In 1284 the choir of Beauvais Cathedral collapses, establishing a construction limit by the empirical method.

Bernhard Riemann, born to a poor family in 1826, became one of the world's prominent mathematicians in the 19th Century. He has a wide range of theorems bearing his name.

Amalie Emmy Noether, the daughter of a mathematician, revolutionized the theories of rings, fields and algebra.

Gauss wrote the incredible Disquisitiones Arithmeticae by the time he was 21.

Rene Descartes, who lived from 1596 to 1650, helped provide the foundations of modern calculus.

Chin Chiu-Shao pioneered the study of indeterminate analysis in his main body of work, The Nine Sections of Mathematics.

Bhaskara, an Indian mathematician and astronomer, extended Brahmagupta's work on number systems. Bhaskara's arithmetic text Lilavati covers the topics of definitions, arithmetical terms, interest computation, and arithmetical and geometrical progressions.