A mathematical formula inscribed on a wall at the Maya site of Xultun in Guatemala has revealed the name of an important Maya ...

But he won’t be winning any awards—he died more than 1,000 years ago in the Maya empire that once flourished in Mesoamerica.

Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who wrote the text around 1200 years ago ...

More than a hundred years ago, long before anyone imagined supercomputers or black hole simulations, legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote down a set of formulas to calculate the ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...