On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

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It is commonly believed that geometry began as a practical subject, and came into being as a result of everyday concerns. The earliest practitioners of geometry developed a set of rules to calculate ...

Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul. Work by Ingres. It was during this period that he came into contact with the theorems. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons His political stance allowed him to ...

Professor Manjul Bhargava, an American mathematician and a winner of the prestigious Fields Medal, has urged a re-acknowledgment of the origins of the numeral system. He calls for recognising the ...

Independent Researcher of Ancient Wisdom and Sacred Geometry, Cardiff, UK. The Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth depicting the image of a crucified man, has fascinated people for centuries. Its origins ...

Today’s two questions test your geometrical smarts. The first is about a triangle, the second about a square. 1. Tricky triangle This one was sent in by a reader, aged 85, who first saw it in 1960. He ...

An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google’s leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist in solving geometry problems in an international mathematics ...

I didn’t find math particularly exciting when I was in high school. To be honest, I only studied it when I went to university because it initially seemed quite easy to me. But in my very first math ...

Sam Raskin in a still from the video “The Geometric Langlands Conjecture”. Credit: Institute for Advanced Study / Youtube Sam Raskin, a mathematician and professor at Yale University, has achieved a ...