This week we look at ancient Egyptian mathematics, building techniques, tools, and culture Just because something is difficult doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Over the past centuries, archaeologists, ...

Archaeologists and mathematicians alike have been puzzled for centuries by the use of spherical jugs in trade in the ancient world, and how merchants measured the volume of the commodities they held.

Examines ancient numeral systems, Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics, Pythagorean mathematics, duplication, trisection, and quadrature, Euclid's elements and Greek mathematics after Euclid, Hindu and ...

WHEN Prof. T. Eric Peet's handsome and in every respect admirable edition of the Rhind Papyrus appeared in 1923, anyone who read it must have felt that we had afr long last (nearly fifty years had ...

In seven houses there are seven cats. Each cat catches seven mice. Each mouse would have eaten seven ears of corn and each ear of corn, if sown, would have produced seven gallons of grain. How many ...