IN the past six years our knowledge of the ancient Babylonian mathematics has been vastly increased, thanks mainly to the labours of Dr. Neugebauer. The impulse to his researches seems to have ...

In 1994, a paper published in the journal Diabetes Care appeared to claim the discovery of "Tai's Model", a "mathematical ...

Examines ancient numeral systems, Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics, Pythagorean mathematics, duplication, trisection, and quadrature, Euclid's elements and Greek mathematics after Euclid, Hindu and ...

Every year, mathematicians, educators, and enthusiasts mark March 14 as Pi Day, celebrating one of the most fundamental ...

BABYLONIAN astronomy has been investigated during the last year successfully by the Rev. Joseph Epping and the Rev. J. N. Strassmaier, S.J., who have explained and annotated two Babylonian ...

Jacob, age 9, Santiago, Panama All societies have had ways of understanding nature based on their experiences of it. For example, farmers need to understand the seasons and weather to know when to ...