Tucked away in a seemingly forgotten corner of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Daniel Mansfield found what may solve one of ancient math’s biggest questions. First exhumed in 1894 from what is now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from ...

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

This story is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference in our community, reported by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more here. Some of the same items the Mayans would have used ...

Shanaya Amernath is solving a worksheet of math problems. Some of the calculations involve several digits, exponents and conversions to metrics. She completes the worksheet using mental math faster ...

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, ...

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, ...

Scientists have long believed inroads in elementary calculus were developed in the 14th century. At that time in history, new concepts were developed to investigate a wide range of problems, one of ...

Historians and archaeologists have, over centuries, explored the mysteries behind the Great Sphinx of Giza: What did it originally look like? What was it designed to represent? What was its original ...

Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...