Explore the etymology of Greek numbers, their origins, meaning, and their influence on mathematics and ancient Greek culture.

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 ...

Some researchers believe that mathematical patterns found in ancient structures may point to a lost civilization—one that ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A mental math system developed in the 1800's is helping some local students ace standardized tests and win math competitions. But the method isn't taught in most Houston schools.

The old Class 7 textbook did not contain any reference to ancient Indian mathematicians. NCERT has been bringing out new ...

For people living in the ancient city of Babylon, Marduk was their patron god, and thus it is not a surprise that Babylonian astronomers took an interest in tracking the comings and goings of the ...

Most of the science books written two thousand years ago in ancient Greece turned out to be spectacularly wrong. However, ancient discoveries in mathematics remain as true today as they were back then ...

Using numbers scrawled by Bronze Age merchants on 4,000-year-old clay tablets, a historian and three economists have developed a novel way to pinpoint the locations of lost cities of the ancient world ...