Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.

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Freedom or death has always been a battle cry and virtue for the Greeks throughout their history. From the battles against ...

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A Mathematics examination was to be administered ... Ramanujan, Hawkins, and Archimedes—his fellow mathematicians. He was a polyglot, a polymath, an iconic and itinerant teacher, a maverick ...

The researchers hint at this themselves with a concluding thought: “Archimedes is said to have ... topics include nuclear energy, cosmology, math of everyday things, and the philosophy of ...

Msgr. Paul V. Garrity When Sgt. Joe Friday would be listening to the life story of a crime victim, he would famously say: Just the facts ma’am. Dragnet began as a radio show in 1949 and blossomed into ...

Will RFK Jr.’s food dye ban drive up food prices? I hope so. I have no idea if artificial food dyes really are bad for you. Or if U.S. health secretary Robert Kennedy’s plan to ban some of them, ...