When Number Tables Began to Move Worlds — From Counting Rods to Quantum States and AI

Scene index

See the whole route before choosing

1. 1263 · LuoyangReducing Rows in a Counting-Rod Table — The Nine Chapters and Liu Hui
2. 21683 · TokyoHolding Entangled Equations in One Quantity — Seki’s Determinants
3. 31693 · HannoverAsking about Solutions through Arrays of Coefficients — Leibniz’s Letter
4. 41750 · GenevaMaking One Ratio for Each Unknown — Cramer’s Rule
5. 51809 · GöttingenEliminating Orbits and Measurement Error — Gauss
6. 61844 · LeipzigWriting Spaces That Could Extend beyond Three Dimensions — Grassmann
7. 71858 · LondonMaking the Number Table Itself an Object of Calculation — Sylvester and Cayley
8. 81901 · LondonFinding the Axes That Best Explain a Cloud of Points — Pearson
9. 91925 · GöttingenTurning Observable Quantities into Multiplication Tables — Matrix Mechanics
10. 101936 · ChicagoReducing a Large Table to Its Most Important Layers — Eckart and Young
11. 111947 · Washington DCTurning Resources and Goals into a Table of Constraints — Dantzig and the Simplex Method
12. 121961 · TeddingtonDriving a Matrix toward a Triangle to Find Eigenvalues — The QR Algorithm
13. 131963 · Cambridge, MABecoming the Transformation That Moves a Line on Screen — Sketchpad
14. 141998 · StanfordReading the Web’s Links as a Giant Transition Matrix — PageRank
15. 152017 · Mountain ViewComparing Context through Matrices — The Transformer