Ian

Every sum you've ever written has Britain in it. 🇬🇧 Not the numbers. The marks between them. 👀 Equals. Times. Greater than. Less than. Infinity. Pi. Even the dot. 🧮 You've used them since you were five. Nobody ever told you who made them. 🤐 John Napier, Edinburgh. His neighbours swore he was a wizard. He made the decimal point normal. 🐓 Robert Recorde, Tenby. Sick of writing "is equal to", he drew two long lines instead. A year later he died in a debtors' prison. ⛓️ William Oughtred, Surrey. A village vicar whose little book made the times sign famous. Isaac Newton learned his algebra from it. ✖️ Thomas Harriot, the Thames. He drew the Moon through a telescope before Galileo did. Then he put it in a drawer. 🔭 John Wallis, London. He cracked the Royalists' codes in the Civil War. Then he drew a loop with no end. ♾️ William Jones, Anglesey. A farmer's boy who taught sailors on a warship. He gave the never-ending number its name. ⭕ Six people. Seven marks. Every sum you've ever written. They teach you the sums. Never the people who made them. 📚 Watch the full story. 🎥 It seems nobody else is counting. Help us put Britain back in the sum. Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧