The quipu is a traditional Andean counting device that uses colored strings and knots in lieu of paper and numbers.

More than memorializing a math mistake, stone tablets show just how advanced the Babylonians were in their time.

Peter Shor revolutionized public-key infrastructure (PKI) using concepts that trace back to 4,000-year-old Babylonian ...

It documents the existence of proofs in ancient mathematical writings about numbers and shows that practitioners of mathematics in Mesopotamian, Chinese and Indian cultures knew how to prove the ...

The project began when both students independently tackled a bonus question in their high school math contest that offered a ...