As a high school student in the mid-1990s, Pace Nielsen encountered a mathematical question that he’s still struggling with to this day. But he doesn’t feel bad: The problem that captivated him, ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands, and ...

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher-level ...