More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

Greece had two golden ages. The first took place after the Greeks defeated the Persians in early fifth century BCE. During the fifty years between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, 479 – 431 ...

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge. Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your first thought probably wasn’t about mathematics. But in its historical origin, the music of the spheres actually was all about math. In ...

PROF. BENJA U HARRINGTON'S Friday evening disclxiirsg at the Royal Institution, entitled of Early Greek Science, was delivered if February 23, 1945, and has recently beery uyished. It deserves to be ...