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, ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

In a remarkable development, a human mathematician has achieved what many thought impossible: solving the centuries-old “kissing problem” in mathematics. This breakthrough, reported on October 23, ...