THE history of mathematics has an image problem. It is often presented as a meeting of minds among ancient Greeks who became masters of logic. Pythagoras, Euclid and their pals honed the tools for ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your first thought probably wasn’t about mathematics. But in its historical origin, the music of the spheres actually was all ...

And their history is intertwined with a question that plagued mathematicians ... Richeson, is a professor of mathematics at Dickinson College. In the next 200 years, algebra matured significantly, and ...

Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner once wrote that mathematics has the uncanny ability to describe the universe around us. That’s the spirit behind the new book “The Big Bang of Numbers: How to ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...

Robyn Arianrhod is a science writer and a mathematician affiliated with Monash University’s School of Mathematics, where she researches general relativity and history of science. She is the ...