In our field of applied mathematics, the long, human process of trial and error — not just the solutions themselves — is ...

A tablet that dates back some 3700 years has been found to be the oldest example of applied geometry in the history of mathematics. Australian mathematician Dr. Daniel Mansfield from UNSW Science's ...

While American children once learned to add by reading a poster of animals and birds, they do it now by playing games on computers. Each step in between—whether it be a box of blocks or exercises ...

How is math education different now from, say, in President Abraham Lincoln’s day? A new online exhibition sheds light on math’s long history. The exhibition is a collaboration between the National ...

THE two volumes of this history (the first of which was noticed in NATURE of November 15, 1924) deal with the subject from two different aspects. The first volume, described as a “General Survey,” is ...

The development of mathematics in the Indian subcontinent is a remarkable blend of the familiar and the unique. The Indian decimal place-value numeral system, which is the foundation of the modern ...

Like many of the cultures it studies, the Department of History of Mathematics has had innovative leaders, a golden era and, inevitably, a fall from glory. This year could witness the end of a ...

IT is only during the last fifty or sixty years that the history of mathematics has been systematically studied. In that time, however, the field has been gradually covered by an increasing number of ...

Today is the birthday of the mathematician Bernhard Riemann.When we think of mathematics, we learn it in school as a practical tool for memorizing fixed formulas and solving calculations without error ...