It has been long thought that one of the characteristics that makes humans unique is our ability to learn and manipulate symbols for communication. However, this notion is starting to slowly ...

There is one symbol, which has an incredibly long history that has not yet been fully written: 0. How did it arise? We know it was used by the Babylonians, but they didn’t write a 0 as we know it.

The adoption of universal symbols permanently changed the way people thought about mathematics. This is a passage from Algebra, written in the ninth century by Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn ...

To determine if the monkeys were actually doing math or were simply recalling memorized patterns, the researchers tested the monkeys with another addition task utilizing the Tetris-like symbols. If ...