Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

“Crystal Math” uses equations—and minimal resources—to rapidly predict the 3D structures of molecular crystals, which could speed up R&D for drugs and electronic devices. Researchers at New York ...

Math is everywhere: medicine, sports, banking, gambling, National Security Agency espionage. And then there’s science, which has adopted math as the preferred method of description for life, nonlife ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article concerns the purpose, function, and mechanisms of students' rhythmic behaviors as they solve embodied-interaction problems, ...

The premise of Marcus du Sautoy’s Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity is that mathematics and creativitiy spring from the same well — structure. Individual numbers exist without human help.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Scientists have long used mathematics to describe the physical properties of the universe. But what if the universe itself is math? That's what cosmologist Max Tegmark believes. In ...