From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing a level of mathematical sophistication that pre-dates the ancient Greeks by a ...

Below left: The tablet, hung in Fukushima prefecture in 1885, measures 5.6 by 2.4 feet and includes a problem involving a folding fan, a popular item in the 19th century. Perhaps it’s not surprising ...

Many people find complex math puzzling, including some mathematicians. Recently, a mathematician has found solutions to a puzzle that has been around for centuries. They have found a way to generate ...

Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know this—that each successive number is the sum of the two numbers that came ...

Plimpton 322 at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University in New York. (Credit: UNSW/Andrew Kelly) Researchers in Australia say an ancient Babylonian tablet that’s considered the ...