Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Prime Number Patterns Prime numbers, divisible only by themselves and 1, have long fascinated mathematicians. Discovering new ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

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How did you learn the mathematical formula for pi? It was likely the way I learned it. I was told to commit the value pi = 3.14 to memory along with the formula to calculate the area of a circle.

A year after he started his Ph.D. in mathematics at McGill University, Matt Bowen had a problem. “I took my qualifying exams and did absolutely horribly on them,” he said. Bowen was sure that his ...