Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

When two mathematicians raised pointed questions about a classic proof that no one really understood, they ignited a years-long debate about how much could be trusted in a new kind of geometry. In the ...

Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines of study. For all its antiquity, however, it is a modern, rapidly growing field. Only 70 years ago, mathematics might have been said to consist of algebra, ...

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The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at ...

When students are genuinely curious about new concepts and ideas, they develop their own study skills, says Pekka Pankka, professor and teacher in the specialization. Geometry, Algebra, and Topology ...

Find out how and why mathematics is used in microeconomics, its limitations, and the math skills that economics students need.

At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most popular ideas have one thing in common: they begin from a mathematical framework that seeks to explain more things than our currently ...