Sometime around 1800 B.C., a Sumerian scholar inscribed a hand-sized clay tablet with a series of cryptic numbers. The unusual tablet, known as Plimpton 322 (below), has provoked years of fevered ...

Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing. However, a new study reveals a potentially earlier origin of math hidden in ...

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