The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

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

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

A 'simple' math sequence has left the internet puzzled, proving that it may be far more complex than it appears at first glance. The mathematical brain teaser, posted by X user Bholanath DuttaFounder, ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Bryna Kra searches for structures. “[I love] finding order where you didn’t know it existed,” she said. But though her dad was a mathematician, at Stony Brook University in New York, Kra said it took ...

One of the curious properties of mathematics is its beauty. But exactly what mathematicians mean by beauty is hard to capture. Perhaps the most famous example is Euler’s relation, e iπ + 1 = 0, which ...