For centuries, prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians, from ancient artifacts to modern tech. Now, cloud computing and ...

Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today all mathematics is based on it ...

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years I noticed that students were always interested in the history of mathematics. When you teach linear algebra or calculus, it’s important ...

IT is only during the last fifty or sixty years that the history of mathematics has been systematically studied. In that time, however, the field has been gradually covered by an increasing number ...

Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner once wrote that mathematics has the uncanny ability to describe the universe around us. That’s the spirit behind the new book “The Big Bang of Numbers: How to ...

Robyn Arianrhod is a science writer and a mathematician affiliated with Monash University’s School of Mathematics, where she researches general relativity and history of science. She is the ...

The aim of the project is to compile information about all the mathematicians of the world and to trace the intellectual history of mathematics. The MGP website aims to provide details of all ...

THE book before us is Part 1 of a history which is intended to consist of three parts. This first part deals only with the history of the numeral notation and of arithmetic; the second will be ...

On this Pi Day, Daniel Sage, professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, explains to UBNow the history of pi, whether it’s really never ending and the other constant that perhaps deserves ...