An Ancient Greek mathematician, Hippasus, allegedly lost his life after revealing irrational numbers that challenged ...

Ancient Greek scholar Eratosthenes calculated Earth's circumference using sunlight and geometry. He observed shadows in Syene ...

It's the most wonderful time of the year—for mathematicians, anyway. Pi Day is Saturday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite ...

Archimedes once said, “He who knows how to speak, knows also when.” It’s a line that feels small, almost casual. But it holds the weight of a lifetime spent thinking about how the world really works.

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient world as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic manuscript kept ...