Mathematics Facts

21 facts, from the everyday to the astonishing.

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

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

The cone is another three-dimensional shape based on the circle. You could think of it as the cross between a circle and…

Some numbers are more special than others. The ancient Greeks called a few of them perfect . The first perfect number is…

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