As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

A mathematical formula inscribed on a wall at the Maya site of Xultun in Guatemala has revealed the name of an important Maya ...

For the first time, archaeologists identified one of the culture’s famed Classic era mathematicians and astronomers ...

Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

A theorem as old as time… or almost For more than two millennia, Pythagoras’ theorem has stood as one of the cornerstones of ...