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Who invented the calculus? - and other 17th century topics

The development of the calculus brought together two seemingly unrelated...

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...

Both Louis XIV in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries...

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

At the outset, the English Crown ruled over tracts of...

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

Aggression lies at the heart of biological competition but its...

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