Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and ...

The ubiquity of mathematics is therefore beyond question, and it is clear that virtually no task can be accomplished without ...

There is a common perception that science is a modern invention with roots in the ancient Greek world. While the Greeks ...

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The shift from ancient to modern metropolises often leaves historians and curious minds asking: which are the oldest civilizations in the world?

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A sequel to Unexpected Links Between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics (World Scientific, 2005), this book is based on the author's intensive and ground breaking studies of the long history of ...

Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babylonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, and has been intensively studied during the last ...

We can sometimes assume students already grasp the foundational concepts necessary for success. Recent results on the ...

It was on the Upper West Side of Manhattan — in what he knew to be a very expensive real estate market — but it held little ...

Apple automatically performs math and offers suggested results in Messages for iPhone and iPad when you type in patterns it recognizes, such as formulas and units, after you type = (equals sign).

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...