Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was ...

For years, plastic surgeons thought the proportions of a beautiful buttocks should follow the Fibonacci sequence. Now, people are looking for a more Kardashian shape.

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

Ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos set the standard of beauty and harmony in statues with his groundbreaking Canon of ...

The old Class 7 textbook did not contain any reference to ancient Indian mathematicians. NCERT has been bringing out new ...

He was the mathematician who ran through the streets shouting “Eureka!” — but that was only a glimpse of his genius. Archimedes of Syracuse laid the foundations for geometry, physics, and engineering, ...

Across the Ohio Valley landscape are the ruins of ancient burial mounds and geometric earthworks aligned to solar, lunar and astrological events. Within many of the burial mounds were the skeletal ...

It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd or 4th century, happened in India. Mathematics on the Indian ...

ATHENS – Greece’s foreign ministry on Oct 5 said 27 citizens detained on a Gaza aid flotilla were to return from detention in Israel on Oct 6, as separate protests were held in the capital. The ...