News

Euclid (c. 300 BC) Euclid was one of the first great Greek mathematicians. In his classic "Elements," Euclid laid the framework for our formal understanding of geometry. While earlier Greek ...
It is for all who care for the historical aspect of science; it is for all lovers of Greek, for mathematics is a true “Legacy of Greece,” and is interwoven through and through with Greek ...
Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from Ancient Greece.
It’s all in celebration of pi (Greek letter π), the mathematical constant and infinite number whose first three digits are 3.14. On this Pi Day, Daniel Sage, professor and chair of the Department of ...
Euclid was one of the first great Greek mathematicians. In his classic "Elements", Euclid laid the framework for our formal understanding of geometry. While earlier Greek philosophers, like the ...
But the math? That is delectable. Let’s start with arguably the simplest fact about this new year: 2025 is a perfect square.