This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...

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Here’s a challenge for the mathematically inclined among you. Solve the following differential equation for y: You have 30 seconds. Quick! No dallying. The answer, of course, is: If you were unable to ...