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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...

This is the 2005 annual Gray's Inn Reading. Other Gray's...

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

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

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

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

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