About Mathiness
Our Mission
As a student, I tended to prefer science courses to math courses. Science courses usually have a hands-on approach in the US. Now, with the proliferation of computers (often masquerading as phones), math can be as hands-on as you like. This website is dedicated to a hands-on approach to topics in math, and will also sneak in some recreational topics.
Approach
I have a good friend, whom I ridiculed for years because he advocated teaching the use of spreadsheets to high school students. He gets the last laugh; here I am using spreadsheets to delve into a variety of topics. Using spreadsheets enables exploration of topics that would be otherwise difficult, due to computational complexity. This is particularly attractive today, with widely available free spreadsheets like Google Sheets and Apple Numbers.
Spreadsheet History
VisiCalc was introduced in 1979 for the Apple II computer. It spearheaded sales into the accounting departments of small businesses
Lotus 1-2-3 followed in 1983. It followed the general VisiCalc style, and could also run on the IBM PC, which came out in 1981,
Excel was introduced in 1985 by Microsoft, and is the standard in the business world today.