Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Breard's interest in Chinese scientific history was ignited by Chinese Mathematics: A Concise History, a book that chronicles China's mathematical developments over 2,000 years. Then a student of math ...

This story is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference in our community, reported by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more here. Some of the same items the Mayans would have used ...

Shanaya Amernath is solving a worksheet of math problems. Some of the calculations involve several digits, exponents and conversions to metrics. She completes the worksheet using mental math faster ...

Scientists have long believed inroads in elementary calculus were developed in the 14th century. At that time in history, new concepts were developed to investigate a wide range of problems, one of ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...