Explore the etymology of Greek numbers, their origins, meaning, and their influence on mathematics and ancient Greek culture.
The Guardian hosts a video animation produced by the grantee Royal Institution (Ri), with the SNF’s support, on how Ancient Greek revolutionary thinkers changed the way we see mathematics, as not ...
Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic ...
Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
Apparently the tradition of great engineers not having college degrees goes back 2500 years. Harvard classics researcher Mark Schiefsky has shown that many great technical innovations of antiquity, ...