Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

"How to Be Thin," Color lithograph, English School, 20th century Source: Bridgeman images, used with permission “…when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know ...

This holiday season, Castellani Art Museum invites you to experience Beyond Numbers: Mathematical Patterns, Shapes, and Flow, a captivating exhibition that explores the profound connection between art ...

Would you like to be a millionaire? There are several ways to fulfill this dream. For two decades the U.S. edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? promised a million dollars if you could answer 15 ...

Two mathematicians have proven Patterson’s conjecture, which was designed to explain a strange pattern in sums involving prime numbers. In the early 1950s, a group of researchers at the Institute for ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...