Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to ...

He was the mathematician who ran through the streets shouting “Eureka!” — but that was only a glimpse of his genius.

Without the scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, who translated Ancient Greek, it is likely that ancient knowledge would now ...

But I think it fundamentally misunderstands what mathematics actually is. Mathematics is not, as popular imagination often ...

Carl Sagan explained the thought process of the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes, who determined the circumference of the ...

Across the Ohio Valley landscape are the ruins of ancient burial mounds and geometric earthworks aligned to solar, lunar and astrological events. Within many of the burial mounds were the skeletal ...

It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd or 4th century, happened in India. Mathematics on the Indian ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

A century after Srinivasa Ramanujan crossed the seas to collaborate with G.H. Hardy at Cambridge, the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (LIMS) has launched a programme inspired by their ...

vA German woman has returned an ancient Greek artifact she stole more than half a century ago from Olympia, Greece, the Greek Ministry of Culture announced on Saturday. The artifact—a limestone column ...