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 ...

“HIGHER Mathematics,” edited by Mansfield Merriman and Robert S. Woodward, is a text-book for classical and engineering colleges, and is a work containing 600 pages. Each chapter is written by a ...

Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 68, No. 3, Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics (May, 2008), pp. 393-407 (15 pages) This article canvasses five senses in which one might introduce an historical element ...

THIS unpretentious but trustworthy book deserves a cordial welcome, and is likely to serve a very useful purpose. There is sound sense in the author's conviction that teachers of elementary ...

March 14 — a day you’re more likely than most others to eat — or throw — a pie and get a reduced price on your pizza. It’s all in celebration of pi (Greek letter π), the mathematical constant and ...

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This course is available on the BSc in Actuarial Science, BSc in Mathematics and Economics, BSc in Mathematics with Data Science, BSc in Mathematics with Economics and BSc in Mathematics, Statistics ...

Vol. 76, No. 475, The Use of the History of Mathematics in the Teaching of Mathematics (Mar., 1992), pp. 46-48 (3 pages) The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical ...

Adapted fromInfinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, by Amir Alexander, by arrangement with Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and ...