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 ...

Due to deliberate misrepresentation of facts and false information, White people had deceived many ignorant and learned people as well in the world that they had originated every good thing that ...

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

The shift from ancient to modern metropolises often leaves historians and curious minds asking: which are the oldest ...

Planting depth is key to a successful long-term tree. You want to dig a hole so the root ball sits on undisturbed soil. If you break up the soil in the bottom of the hole, the ball will settle over ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today ...