Constantine Karatheodori is one of the greates mathematicians of the 20th century. He worked with many great minds including ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—for mathematicians, anyway. Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite number ...

“If you want to live a long life, keep a little aged wine and an old friend,” Pythagoras advised as a way to achieve the longevity so many desire and that, unfortunately, seems within reach of only a ...

A Classics student is trying to reconstruct the history of geometrical and mathematical diagrams by examining copies and translations of Elements, the ancient work of Greek mathematician Euclid.

PRIME numbers may have been studied for over 2000 years, but there is always something new to learn. A method for finding primes first devised by the ancient Greek mathematician Eratosthenes in 240 BC ...

The Vegan Museum wants you to know all about the history of vegetarianism. Vegetarians used to be called Pythagoreans in an ode to the famed Greek mathematician, Pythagoras. Known for his Pythagorean ...

Three mathematicians show, for the first time, how to form a square with the same area as a circle by cutting them into interchangeable pieces that can be visualized. Around 450 BCE, Anaxagoras of ...

Computers are working to solve an age-old geometry problem. Humans can’t “square the circle” by hand, which was proven in the 1800s. Computer solutions involve infinity, complexity, and some ...