The History of Mathematics Research Group studies the origins and development of mathematical ideas and methods from the beginnings of recorded history—in all societies and cultures. Research in this ...

The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...

The symbols we use every day have fascinating and surprisingly recent origins, explains author Joseph Mazur in his new book A few years ago friends and I were talking about the origins of written ...

Adapted fromInfinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, by Amir Alexander, by arrangement with Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and ...

Curatorial Records / Series 4: DIVISION OF MATHEMATICS, COMPUTER HISTORY RECORDS. ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY ORGANIZATION AND INDIVIDUAL, CIRCA 1966-1974, AND UNDATED. / Box 24 ...

THERE is great diversity of opinion as to the most suitable case of drawing instruments for students, many colleges having their own particular cpecifications; but it would be difficult to find a more ...

THE two volumes of this history (the first of which was noticed in NATURE of November 15, 1924) deal with the subject from two different aspects. The first volume, described as a “General Survey,” is ...