Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

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Teaching Children Mathematics (TCM) is an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is intended as a resource for elementary school students, teachers, and teacher ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...

Breakthroughs in physics sometimes require an assist from the field of mathematics—and vice versa. In 1912, Albert Einstein, then a 33-year-old theoretical physicist at the Eidgenössische Technische ...

The 2008 Abel Prize was awarded to John Griggs Thompson of the University of Florida and Jacques Tits of the Collège de France for their contributions to group theory, the mathematical field that ...