What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

Test your mathematics knowledge with this 'Name That Thing' puzzle that challenges you to name all the seven geometric tools ...

Preserved in the margins of ancient literary works are notes that reveal how the Greeks strove to map mythical places onto ...

The Kandahar Sophytos Inscription, written in refined Greek in the 2nd century BCE, reveals the deep reach of Hellenistic culture in ancient Afghanistan and tells the personal story of a merchant who ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

Let's explore how the Pythagorean theorem was known and applied in India centuries before Pythagoras, highlighting a poetic geometry problem from Bhāskara II’s Līlāvatī. It traces the theorem’s ...

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...

Major reforms and inventions often begin with a line of mathematics. For students, equations can look abstract on a classroom ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

“Our goal was to build a clear mathematical bridge between abstract algebra and the experience of listening to music,” said study co-author Olga Ibragimova. “When we think of melodies as shapes we can ...

Hypatia of Alexandria, a renowned mathematician and philosopher, taught in the ancient world when few women had such opportunities. Her life as a public intellectual and advisor ended tragically in ...