Mathematics Facts

21 facts, from the everyday to the astonishing.

Many concepts that we all take for granted sounded strange and foreign when first introduced. Take the number zero for…

The origins of the meter go back to at least the 18th century. At that time, there were two competing approaches to the…

Originally, each country had its own, and rather poorly reproducible, unit of luminous intensity; it was necessary to…

Often it takes a second look to see how mathematical numbers and patterns fit into the natural world. Numbers, after…

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