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

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

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Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees, too, can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much ...

Hidden Fibonacci numbers, a new shape and the search for a grand unified theory of mathematics are among our choices for most ...