Did you ever screw up your homework so badly that it gets preserved in stone and analyzed by researchers thousands of years ...

The quipu is a traditional Andean counting device that uses colored strings and knots in lieu of paper and numbers.

Apollonius of Perga, who lived from 240 BC to c. 190 BC, was a brilliant ancient Greek mathematician known for his work on ...

Peter Shor revolutionized public-key infrastructure (PKI) using concepts that trace back to 4,000-year-old Babylonian ...

As Eleanor Robson, a specialist in ancient mathematics from Cambridge University explains: "Everyone who's writing mathematics is doing it because they're learning how to be a literate ...

The project began when both students independently tackled a bonus question in their high school math contest that offered a ...

An asteroid has been named after Liu Hui a mathematician who lived during China Wei and Jin dynasties 220-420 to honor both Liu and the Chinese ma ...