More than memorializing a math mistake, stone tablets show just how advanced the Babylonians were in their time.

Peter Shor revolutionized public-key infrastructure (PKI) using concepts that trace back to 4,000-year-old Babylonian ...

It documents the existence of proofs in ancient mathematical writings about numbers and shows that practitioners of mathematics in Mesopotamian, Chinese and Indian cultures knew how to prove the ...

Barwik, Miroslaw 2018. Dipinti in the relieving chamber above the Bark Hall of the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, Vol. 27, Issue. 2, p. 33.

BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- An asteroid has been named after Liu Hui, a mathematician who lived during China's Wei and Jin dynasties (220-420), to honor both Liu and the Chinese mathematics he ...

The project began when both students independently tackled a bonus question in their high school math contest that offered a ...

Since the early ancient times, Indian scholars including Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Mahavira and Bhaskara II have made ...

As Eleanor Robson, a specialist in ancient mathematics from Cambridge University explains: "Everyone who's writing mathematics is doing it because they're learning how to be a literate ...