Jim Simons, a businessman and founder of Math for America, poses at his New York office, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005. Simons, ...

IT is only during the last fifty or sixty years that the history of mathematics has been systematically studied. In that time, however, the field has been gradually covered by an increasing number ...

A look at the curious history of Venn diagrams and the way they blend logic ... “Venn Diagrams and Independent Families of Sets,” by Branko Grünbaum in Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 48 ...

THE SECRET LIVES OF NUMBERS: A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers, by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell. Mathematics has been described as the longest continuous human thought.

On this Pi Day, Daniel Sage, professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics, explains to UBNow the history of pi, whether it’s really never ending and the other constant that perhaps deserves ...

THE two volumes of this history (the first of which was noticed in NATURE of November 15, 1924) deal with the subject from two different aspects. The first volume, described as a “General Survey ...