Plans to address mathematically challenged Minnesota students could be offered early in 2009. A six-member, bipartisan task force is expected to meet later this month to look at ways to improve the ...

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

Most people think that only people can understand numbers, but that's not true. Many animals can naturally figure out how ...

“It was just so stunning for someone so young to have done something so revolutionary,” said Weinstein, a 34-year-old number theorist now at Boston University. “It was extremely humbling.” ...

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

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