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History from Below: Mathematics, Instruments and Archaeology

In recent decades, archaeologists working on sites such as the...

With the invention of printing, mathematical writings became widely available...

Arabic mathematicians embraced the mathematics of Ancient Greece and India...

How can we distinguish between 'easy problems' and 'hard problems'...

Prime numbers form the building blocks of arithmetic. But if...

As an island people, the inhabitants of Britain were repeatedly...

The concept of zero developed in many cultures over thousands...

The fascinating story of all the bridges that have been...

It is often argued that mathematics as we know it...

Many thousands of surviving mathematical clay tablets provide much information...