According to Jacques Sesiano in "An Introduction to the History of Algebra" (AMS, 2009), this problem is based on a Babylonian clay tablet circa 1800 B.C. (VAT 8389, Museum of the Ancient Near East).

That’s one lesson I took from “History of Mathematics,” an online ... including counting, arithmetic, algebra, geometry and prime numbers. Each gallery has a short timeline and features ...

You might be most familiar with “x” from math class. Many algebra problems use “x” as a variable to stand in for an unknown quantity. But why is “x” the letter chosen for this role?

This video explores the history of Co-ordinates, as the characters meet Rene Descartes, who explains his system of Cartesian co-ordinates.

Praxis the robot and Alan the “human man” lead the letter X through the development of algebra from Ancient Egypt to Rene Descartes. Discuss the development of algebra as a practical way of ...

THE roots of algebra, as John Derbyshire tells us, go back to the ancient world: the Babylonians left cuneiform tablets showing simple algebraic problems. Its actual birth is usually credited to ...

THIS is far from being a mere reprint of the first edition; in fact, it is in great part a new work, which, in conjunction with Tannery's critical edition of the “Arithmetica,” makes ...

dealing with numeral notation and arithmetic, which was issued in 1935, and noticed in NATURE of January 18, 1936, p. 88; the present volume (Part 2) contains the history of algebra.

Novelist Jeffers (The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois) presents a collection of incisive essays exploring “the crossroads”: “a location of difficulty and possibility, a boundary Continue ...