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 ...

IN a recent number of NATURE (June 30) there appeared a review of a book by G. Mannoury on the philosophy of mathematics, and the reviewer emphasised a statement of the author to the effect that the ...

When students at the Anna Science Centre-Planetarium were asked to fold a sheet of paper, little did they know the 16 folded squares were the starting point of a discussion on ancient mathematics and ...

22 December is commemorated annually to mark the birth anniversary of legendary Indian Mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan. While the day recognizes and celebrates his works we have made a quiz for you ...