How did the complexity of the Delian problem, an ancient Greek mathematical riddle that baffled brilliant minds, reshape our ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—for mathematicians, anyway. Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite number ...

BALTIMORE -- Long-hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are ready to go on display at Baltimore's Teams of scientists and scholars spent 12 years using a variety of methods, ...

Computers are working to solve an age-old geometry problem. Humans can’t “square the circle” by hand, which was proven in the 1800s. Computer solutions involve infinity, complexity, and some ...

Three mathematicians show, for the first time, how to form a square with the same area as a circle by cutting them into interchangeable pieces that can be visualized. Around 450 BCE, Anaxagoras of ...