The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Millions of people have explored ancient Greece's golden ratio, a magical number that has fascinated experts and amateurs for ...

Most people don’t remember math class, but they do remember Pythagoras. Greek philosopher and mathematician, he is credited with one of the handiest formulae any school student could know: A squared ...

Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing a level of mathematical sophistication that pre-dates the ancient Greeks by a ...

Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse calculated the infinite mathematical concept pi in the 200s BCE, which we ...

The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for moving ...

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 ...