Around 1900 B.C., a student in the Sumerian city of Nippur, in what’s now Iraq, copied a multiplication table onto a clay tablet. Some 4,000 years later, that schoolwork survives, as do the student’s ...

When facts are taught, they should also be given history. One learns the trajectory of thinking, how a concept is developed,' ...

Jeremiah Bartz owns shares in Nvidia. A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less ...

Part of the international reflection on the use of history in mathematics teaching consists in a quest of frameworks and models suitable for empirical studies. Following this demand, this paper ...

No one knows for sure when mathematics went from being a functional system for keeping track of sheep to a philosophical system that transcended the objects it counted, but as well-known science ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a book by Heinrich Dorrie, ...

In celebration of Women’s History Month, it is important to recognize the accomplishments of 9 African American women scientists. These women have made significant contributions to space programs, ...

By institutionalising muhūrta s within mathematics, the UGC is effectively telling students that astrological determinism is ...

Last month, Dr. Dóminique Kemp reached a milestone that few individuals achieve in mathematics education. The Indiana University student became the first Black graduate to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, ...