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 ...

And their history is intertwined with a question that plagued mathematicians for millennia ... This month’s columnist, David S. Richeson, is a professor of mathematics at Dickinson College. In the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Book review: Imagine an arrow on a computer screen – in PowerPoint, say. You can drag it around the screen and it’s the same arrow. You can make different arrows by stretching it or rotating ...

O’Farrell and Ó Cairbre received the 2018 Maths Week Ireland Award for Raising ... Real numbers commute, meaning that x times y is the same as y times x for whole numbers, fractions, and ...

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 ...