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Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured counting, even though no written numerals existed at the time. The claim is bold: ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

A recent study reveals that decorative flower motifs on 8,000-year-old pottery from the Halafian culture demonstrate ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

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Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

The end of every semester brings new things to be excited about. For me, it’s always opening up Bionic, selecting my classes, inputting them into a temporary calendar, pressing submit, and leaving ...

Mathematics is more than a tool for making computations and solving problems. It’s a way of thinking that reveals patterns and symmetries, and makes connections between different abstract ideas. Many ...

While building a simpler model for particle interactions, scientists made a sleek new pi. Representations of pi help scientists use values close to real life without storing a million digits. The ...

Terence Tao, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, who is often called the “Mozart of Math,” would rather not talk politics. “I do scientific research,” Tao said. “I vote, I sign a petition, but ...