WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Using written symbols such as hearts, arrows and hands, the ancient Aztecs maintained an arithmetic system that was far more complex than previously understood, scientists said ...

THIS is an ingenious work, and would have suited the “fantastical” Armado (“I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster”). By the aid of 1759 figures only the user of it is able to ...

The natives of a remote Polynesian Island invented a binary number system, similar to the one used by computers to calculate, centuries before Western mathematicians did, new research suggests. The ...

Hacker's Delight is a treasure trove for learning how to write efficient code. Over the course of 16 chapters and two appendices, fiendishly clever algorithms are illustrated through numerous examples ...

As I told my class on Thursday, the theme of the first week of our math history course was “easy algebra is hard in base 60.” We started the semester in ancient Mesopotamia, trying to understand ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Author Emerson Elbridge White claimed ...