Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of the science books written two thousand years ago in ancient Greece turned out to be spectacularly wrong. However, ancient discoveries in mathematics remain as true today as they were back then ...