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4000 Years of Algebra

From the writers of Mesopotamian tablets, via treachery in 16th-century...

The 'circle number' pi has fascinated people for thousands of...

What is meant by the square root of minus 1...

What do we mean by exponential growth? How quickly does...

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

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

How did numbers arise? How were they written down? What...

We all have our problems! Mathematicians can be divided into...

In the 8th century Alcuin of York described the wolf...

On 30 May 1832 a young Frenchman named Évariste Galois...