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.

New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA Software developed to investigate ...

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

Any account of the classical sciences of India must begin with mathematics, for, as the ancient Sanskrit text Vedanga Jyotisa (ca. fourth century B.C.E.) says, Like the crest on the peacock’s head, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The perspective and expertise which Sattler brings to these issues will be of great interest and value to those working in ancient philosophy or in the ... Sattler's understanding of foundational ...

Journal of Classics Teaching 'In this splendid follow-up to Ancient Mathematics (London, 2001), Serafina Cuomo turns her attention to technology, a subject that is often considered to be on the ...