Timeline for How might a Professor of Mathematics Change History?
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| Aug 5, 2018 at 3:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 31, 2018 at 17:33 | answer | added | James Aanderson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 15:52 | answer | added | J Thomas | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 15:15 | comment | added | hoffmale | The biggest change would be him carrying lots of bacteria to which we are more or less immune due to centuries of adaptations, but those people haven't had those environments yet... | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 13:58 | comment | added | user1306322 | I gotta ask why "Change" is capitalized and "might" is not in the title | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 13:52 | answer | added | Dhara | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 7:15 | answer | added | ohwilleke | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 31, 2018 at 0:18 | comment | added | taylor swift | you should consider changing the setting to a non-agricultural neolithic community. (somewhat unintuitively) agricultural societies until very recently simply did not have the free time for learning and invention, whereas hunter-gatherer communities had significantly more leisure time to devote to studying mathematics. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 20:02 | answer | added | Him | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 20:02 | comment | added | Bill K | There was a short story I remember from the 70's/80's where a guy sent himself back in time to that era to create a super civilization. I remember his frustration expressed in his statement "I can't build the tools to make the tools to make the tools!" | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 17:44 | comment | added | Autonomous |
First thing that comes to my mind is trigonometry.
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| Jul 30, 2018 at 16:54 | comment | added | Aify | When the accepted answer starts with "I think", you can be pretty certain that the question is POB. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 16:34 | answer | added | David Rice | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 15:53 | comment | added | MissMonicaE | only a comment because I don't actually know if post-Neolithic people would already know about this, but: what about geometry and trig for navigation? | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 13:50 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 30, 2018 at 12:36 | answer | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 12:03 | answer | added | Ash | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 11:45 | comment | added | pojo-guy | Neolithic societies built some amazing structures ... The Stonehenge complex for example. Neolithic peoples were not just Hunter gatherer tribes, but also settled farming communities and some decent sized cities. Who is to say your professor don't have something to do with some of these? | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 11:32 | answer | added | Sasugasm | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 11:18 | answer | added | Alex2006 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 11:07 | answer | added | Elmy | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 11:01 | vote | accept | Benny Hill | ||
| Jul 30, 2018 at 10:58 | answer | added | Kweb | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 10:55 | answer | added | theGarz | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 10:47 | answer | added | SZCZERZO KŁY | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 10:47 | answer | added | ArtificialSoul | timeline score: 32 | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 10:23 | comment | added | Ash | Where was he? That will make a lot of difference to the answer, although I think in reality you're up against it in the POB and Too Broad departments both. | |
| Jul 30, 2018 at 10:20 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 30, 2018 at 10:19 | history | asked | Benny Hill | CC BY-SA 4.0 |