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…

Eratosthenes (c. 276 – 194 BC) was born more than 2200 years ago in the Greek city of Cyrene, now a city in the North…

In the mid-1800's, Paul Broca discovered that there were specialized functions for different regions in the human brain.…

Calculating the volume of a cylinder is even easier than calculating its area. All you have to do is recognize that a…

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