IT is only during the last fifty or sixty years that the history of mathematics has been systematically studied. In that time, however, the field has been gradually covered by an increasing number ...

THE two volumes of this history (the first of which was noticed in NATURE of November 15, 1924) deal with the subject from two different aspects. The first volume, described as a “General Survey ...

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years I noticed that students were always interested in the history of mathematics. When you teach linear algebra or calculus, it’s important ...

This is the first time a decimal point is recorded being used in history. Excerpt from ... of Ferrara," paper author Glen Van Brummelen, a math historian at Trinity Western University, told ...

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On this Pi Day, Daniel Sage, professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, explains to UBNow the history of pi, whether it’s really never ending and the other constant that perhaps deserves ...

Math becomes more of a story, not just like Genesis, but also like the narrative of how everything gets built up from the big bang in physics. And who doesn’t love a story, as they say. This ...