Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...
Archimedes, a brilliant ancient Greek mathematician and physicist, emphasized the importance of timing and awareness in ...
The main fountain in the ancient Greek city of Perga in Turkey flows again after restoration works restored it to its former ...
History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their names.
The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...
It’s no secret that many of us are not too fond of mathematics and geometry, and that it is often too complex. But even so, it can be pretty mind-blowing to look back in history and discover the ...
The Antikythera computer was the culmination of advanced mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy and engineering. It incorporated the philosophy and science of Aristotle, the gears of Ktesibios, the ...
In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...
24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...
A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math’s most mysterious problems — and in doing so, become a rising star. As Quanta magazine reports, fledgling ...