It’s an incredible revelation that carvings found deep within the Amazon rainforest offer evidence of advanced mathematical understanding dating back some 4,000 years. These carvings, revealed due to ...

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While American children once learned to add by reading a poster of animals and birds, they do it now by playing games on computers. Each step in between—whether it be a box of blocks or exercises ...

In 2014 Mura Yakerson, a college student at the time, decided to practice driving in a quiet area in the countryside near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Then something went wrong. While she was pulling out ...

When facts are taught, they should also be given history. One learns the trajectory of thinking, how a concept is developed,' ...

Like many of the cultures it studies, the Department of History of Mathematics has had innovative leaders, a golden era and, inevitably, a fall from glory. This year could witness the end of a ...

A new book by Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy challenges the notion that mathematics and art occupy separate worlds. In ...

For certain people, March 14th each year marks Pi Day, the date 3.14 is the first three digits in the infinitely continuing number. It’s also Albert Einstein’s birthday. “Pi Day is an annual ...