Learn why the achievements of Egypt, Babylon and Greece, though child’s play today, still stand as remarkable feats of ...

A study by Oregon Health and Science University researchers suggests that the ability to process numbers may have originated ...

A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ago.

It documents the existence of proofs in ancient mathematical writings about numbers and shows that practitioners of mathematics in Mesopotamian, Chinese and Indian cultures knew how to prove the ...