Major reforms and inventions often begin with a line of mathematics. For students, equations can look abstract on a classroom ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

Everyone who has a friend or relative from Greece has heard of "horta," which literally refers to the humble "weed" in ...

Clean Monday—the beginning of Lent among Orthodox Christians—is the day Greeks fly kites, symbolic of the Resurrection.

Heron of Alexandria is said to have invented the first vending machine in the 1st century AD. So, how did this contraption work, and what did it dispense?

“Our goal was to build a clear mathematical bridge between abstract algebra and the experience of listening to music,” said study co-author Olga Ibragimova. “When we think of melodies as shapes we can ...

Hypatia of Alexandria, a renowned mathematician and philosopher, taught in the ancient world when few women had such opportunities. Her life as a public intellectual and advisor ended tragically in ...

Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing. However, a new study reveals a potentially earlier origin of math hidden in ...

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

Scientists used a particle accelerator to uncover centuries-old star observations by Hipparchus.Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Ancient Greek astronomers made important ...

Scientists have successfully decoded portions of a long-lost star catalog created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus, using powerful synchrotron radiation produced by a particle accelerator ...