Tantalizingly, Si.427 is thought to predate Plimpton 322 – if that’s the case, then this discovery is not only the oldest known example of geometry in the world, but also an important clue to ...

Analysis of ancient Babylonian tablets reveals that, to calculate the position of Jupiter, the tablets' makers used geometry, a technique scientists previously believed humans had not developed ...

Around 450 BCE, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae had some time to think. The Greek mathematician was in prison for claiming the sun was not a god, but rather an incandescent rock as big as the Peloponnese ...

The task Ferguson (Tycho & Kepler) takes on is formidable: to describe not only the ancient Greek mathematician and mystic Pythagoras, but also the entire sweep of the Pythagorean legacy, from his ...

Computers are working to solve an age-old geometry problem. Humans can’t “square the circle” by hand, which was proven in the 1800s. Computer solutions involve infinity, complexity, and some ...

How the geometry of ancient habitats may have influenced human brain evolution Landscapes that are not too dense and not too sparse comprise a “Goldilocks zone.” ...

The paper, by M. Ossendrijver at Excellence Cluster TOPOI in Berlin, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter's position from the area under a time ...