Like many of the cultures it studies, the Department of History of Mathematics has had innovative leaders, a golden era and, inevitably, a fall from glory. This year could witness the end of a ...

How is math education different now from, say, in President Abraham Lincoln’s day? A new online exhibition sheds light on math’s long history. The exhibition is a collaboration between the ...

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 ...

History of Math Shaken Up As Fundamental Point 150 Years Older Than Thought Published Feb 21, 2024 at 1:36 PM EST Updated Feb 26, 2024 at 4:23 PM EST By Jess Thomson ...

That pushes back the origin of what would eventually become the zero symbol, 0, we use today. The manuscript shows a series of Sanskrit numerals. In it, zero is represented by a small dot.

A panel formed by the U.S. Department of Education declares that 10 math programs are “exemplary” or are “promising” in improving student achievement. All are written to reflect the NCTM ...

By the 1970s, young children started learning math from electronic devices, such as “Little Professor,” a toy marketed by Texas Instruments in the late 1970s and on view at the museum.

In 2019, building on the tradition of Pi Day celebrations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed March 14 the International Day of Mathematics (IDM).

A History of Absence Zero may have been invented more than once, with different functions. For example, around 5,000 years ago the Babylonians had a concept of zero, but it wasn’t a number that ...

Books Received Published: 15 November 1924 History of Mathematics T. L. H. Nature 114, 707–709 (1924) Cite this article ...