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.

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

Given the current state of practice and visions for the future (including AI), certain practices should be reevaluated. This article draws on several (of many) resources which cover policy and ...

Abstract: In this study, an equivalent thermal network for a general geometry with internal heating in cylindrical coordinates is derived. The equivalent thermal circuit consists of three thermal ...

THE substance of this volume has formed the material of a course of lectures delivered for some years past to undergraduates in Glasgow. Its object is to provide the student, whose bent is towards ...

Mathematicians sometimes think of their research as a garden and unsolved problems as seeds waiting to sprout. Some problems are analogous to tulip bulbs. As mathematicians work to solve them, they ...

John Etnyre receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Elaine M. Hubbard Distinguished Faculty Award When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living ...

THE master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, here provides a “key” to the examples in the new edition of his “Treatise on Conic Sections by the Methods of Coordinate Geometry,” published recently.

CBSE 2024-25 Competency Based Questions With Answers: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released the competency-based practice questions for students of class 10. These questions are ...

The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory—if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts for more than 160 years. And the problem appeared both in mathematician ...

In an old Indian parable, six blind men each touch a different part of an elephant. They disagree about what the elephant must look like: Is it smooth or rough? Is it like a snake (so thinks the man ...