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 ...

Mathematics didn’t arise complete and finished through the work of just one mathematician; it has a cultural history that spans many years. For centuries we’ve been looking at the sky or ...

History of Math Shaken Up As Fundamental Point 150 Years Older Than Thought. Published Feb 21, 2024 at 1:36 PM EST Updated Feb 26, 2024 at 4:23 PM EST. By .

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 ...

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 ...