The History of Mathematics from Egypt to Greece

Did geometry emerge suddenly in Greece?When we think of geometry, Greek names like Thales, Pythagoras, and Euclid come to ...
patheos

Doing the bloody math in emerging civil war in Egypt

It appears that some members of the mainstream press are beginning to do the hard, bloody math in Egypt. The math? This is why I have continued to point GetReligion readers toward that 2011 poll of ...
nytimes.com

Math Puzzles’ Oldest Ancestors Took Form on Egyptian Papyrus

You may know this singsong quiz, But what you might not know is this: That it began with ancient Egypt’s Early math-filled manuscripts. It’s true. That very British-sounding St. Ives conundrum (the ...
Scientific American magazine

Learn to Count like an Egyptian

Last semester, I began my math history class with some Babylonian arithmetic. The mathematics we were doing was easy—multiplying and adding numbers, solving quadratic equations by completing the ...
The Conversation

On his 250th birthday, Joseph Fourier’s math still makes a difference

March 21 marks the 250th birthday of one of the most influential mathematicians in history. He accompanied Napoleon on his expedition to Egypt, revolutionized science’s understanding of heat transfer, ...