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 ...
Mathematics education in India must stay strongly focused on areas that directly contribute to employability, research ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...