Praxis the robot and Alan the “human man” lead the letter X through the development of algebra from Ancient Egypt to Rene Descartes. Discuss the development of algebra as a practical way of solving ...

Classicist Kuin (Lucian’s Laughing Gods) offers a enthralling intellectual history of Diogenes, the founder of Cynicism—a word derived from the Greek for “dog,” the moniker Continue reading » One Bad ...

THIS is the second volume of the three in which ooo the authors are writing the history of Hindu mathematics. The first contained Part 1, dealing with numeral notation and arithmetic, which was issued ...