John Carlos Baez on Nostr: For more, read these - you can slake your curiosity about 𝘛𝘩𝘦 ...

For more, read these - you can slake your curiosity about 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴' 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭, whose full title was 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴' 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭: 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘚 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘊𝘐𝘌𝘕𝘊𝘌𝘚, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘗𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘐𝘊𝘜𝘓𝘈𝘙𝘚: 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚𝘌 𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘋𝘐𝘝𝘌𝘙𝘚𝘐𝘖𝘕 𝘖𝘍 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘍𝘈𝘐𝘙 𝘚𝘌𝘟.

• Branko Grünbaum, "Is Napoleon's Theorem Really Napoleon's Theorem?" American Mathematical Monthly 119, no. 6 (2012): 495–501. https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.119.06.495 (The definitive debunking; traces the Ladies' Diary appearance in detail.)

• Joe Albree and Scott H. Brown. "'A Valuable Monument of Mathematical Genius': The Ladies' Diary (1704–1840)." Historia Mathematica 36, no. 1 (2009): 10–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2008.09.005 (The standard survey of its mathematical content.)

• Teri Perl, "The Ladies' Diary or Woman's Almanack, 1704–1841." Historia Mathematica 6, no. 1 (1979): 36–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(79)90103-4

• Frank J. Swetz, "The Impact and Legacy of The Ladies' Diary (1704–1840): A Women's Declaration". MAA Spectrum 101. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2021. https://bookstore.ams.org/SPEC/101

• Wikipedia, "The Ladies' Diary." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ladies%27_Diary (Includes an image of the 1826 page with the geometric and analytic proofs of Napoleon's theorem).

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