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 ...

More than 60,000 years ago, early humans in southern Africa were carving patterns onto ostrich eggshells—and new research shows these designs were far more sophisticated than previously believed. A ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The focus on Indian knowledge systems in the UGC’s proposed mathematics curriculum is better suited to other disciplines such as astronomy and religious studies. The University Grants Commission’s ...

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 ...