Among the oldest known math texts is a single line that has quietly puzzled scholars for centuries. On its surface, it works ...

Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...

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The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

Letters and Politics 05.06.25 - 10:00am How Ancient India Changed The World: From Buddhism to Math Listen Download open in itunes ...

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost secrets. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons From the Library of ...

NCERT’s recently released Class 7 mathematics textbook includes multiple mentions of ancient Indian contributions to the subject and says concepts such as algebra were first developed by Indian ...

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 ...

We explore the astonishing mathematics behind an ancient stone vessel. Uncover the secrets of its design, from radial transversal patterns to the golden ratio, and how they built a CAD model with ...