Researchers in Australia have made a discovery that may shake up the history of mathematics, revealing evidence of applied geometry being used for the purposes of land surveying some 3,700 years ago.

As such, the palimpsest hosts a number of 10th century treatises by the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of ...

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 ...

Clay tablets dating back to between 350 and 50 B.C. have revealed that the Babylonians not only tracked the biggest planet in our solar system but also created the birth of calculus while they were ...

A Classics student is trying to reconstruct the history of geometrical and mathematical diagrams by examining copies and translations of Elements, the ancient work of Greek mathematician Euclid.

A cognitive investigation of Howiesons Poort engraved ostrich eggshells, published by PLOS One analyzed 112 engraved fragments from sites in South Africa and Namibia. A companion report summarizing ...

Humans have been drawing lines and circles to grasp geometrical concepts and describe the laws of nature for about 5,000 years. But most scholars have approached the history of ancient mathematical ...

A scientist has revealed that an ancient clay tablet could be the oldest and most complete example of applied geometry. The surveyor's field plan from the Old Babylon period shows that ancient ...

Computers are working to solve an age-old geometry problem. Humans can’t “square the circle” by hand, which was proven in the 1800s. Computer solutions involve infinity, complexity, and some ...