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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

But in its historical origin, the music of the spheres actually was all about math. In fact, that phrase represents a watershed in the history of math’s relationship with science.

Although each type of number has its own fascinating and complicated history, today they are all so familiar that they are taught to schoolchildren. Integers are just the whole numbers, plus the ...

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 180-year-old graffiti scribble was actually an equation that changed the history of mathematics. ... maths buffs retrace his famous walk every October 16 to celebrate Hamilton Day.