How Fibonacci Introduced The World To Numbers To carry out their calculations, merchants in the early 13th century used an abacus or a system called finger reckoning. Commerce changed when ...

Mathematics helps us understand the world, and in Paulina Rowińska’s Mapmatics: How we navigate the world through numbers, the focus is on its indispensability in the making of visual ...

For most of humans' existence, our ancestors led precarious lives as scavengers, hunters, and gatherers, and there were fewer than 10 million people on Earth at any one time. Today, many cities ...