Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...
Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...
As a high school student in the mid-1990s, Pace Nielsen encountered a mathematical question that he’s still struggling with to this day. But he doesn’t feel bad: The problem that captivated him, ...
PRIME numbers may have been studied for over 2000 years, but there is always something new to learn. A method for finding primes first devised by the ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes in 240 BC ...
Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. If you take a close look at the world, you’ll find that you’re ...